I don't know about the rest of you, but I am finding this discussion very useful. My interest -- not necessarily support -- of Dean is that his style might open up a critical discussion of Bush, showing other Dems. that you can stand up to those bastards.
John Gulick:
What I have to say here is ephemera to be sure, but while I too find Dean's shoot-from-the-hip _style_ refreshing, if anything he is doing more to shut down than open up a critical discussion of Bush. All he is doing is animating the conviction of his followers that Bush is evil incarnate. By his followers, I refer in the main to two groups -- one, the hard-core DP faithful who have jumped on the bandwagon, and two, the naive left-liberal student types, many of whom seem to be under the illusion that Dean is the second coming of George McGovern (as many in the bourgeois press suggest) rather than Jimmy Carter. Both of these groups are prepossesed with the most muddled of convictions -- willing on the one hand to entertain the most way-out single-note conspiracy theories about Iraq being about nothing other than enriching Halliburton and Bechtel, and on the other hand to embrace a candidate who has publicly stated he won't deprive the Pentagon of a red cent and whose foreign policy advisory staff is filled to the gills with CFR types and Clyde Prestowitz. All of this reflects the paucity of US political culture.
John Gulick Knoxville, TN
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