pudge's Journal: Dean Dean Dean Dean Dean, Revisited

I would look pretty damned prescient, except that lots of other people could see this coming from miles away, too. It's pathetic that the Democrats who put him there couldn't see it, though.

In case you missed it, in recent weeks he has been talking again. His recent one was saying DeLay should go back to Texas to serve his jail sentence (even though DeLay has not even been charged with, let alone convicted of, a crime). Even Barney Frank said Dean went way over the line on that one.

A few months ago he said he hates Republicans and that they are brain dead. Now, he says "a lot of [Republicans] have never made an honest living in their lives."

Keep it up, Dean. Keep ignoring my advice. Keep alienating the people whom you might try to win over to your side of the aisle. No skin off my nose ... but if I were a Democrat, I would be Dean-screaming all the way to the DNC HQ to get him to resign. He's just awful. For the Democrats.

OTOH

[Red Warrior]

Keep alienating the people whom you might try to win over to your side of the aisle.

Even worse (better?), keep alienating habitual/casual Democrats. The ones who vote D because "I'm union"[1], "My family has always voted D", "Everyone I know votes D", or the old standby "I vote D because the Rs are meanies!". IOW, the vast majority of D's (like the vast majority of all voters) who normally ignore politics until a few weeks before the next election.

IMO, Dean is doing more to alienate these people than h

I agree, but...

[JordanH]

It's refreshing to hear a politician come out and say what they really think. You know a lot of Democrats, in their heart of hearts, believe all these things. No, poll-driven, carefully triangulated strategy at work here, nosiree, just pure Dean and Democratic bile.

In a way, you can even see it as a strategy. Dean isn't trying to win over voters, that's the job of the various candidates. He's trying to energize the base into contributing. By his coming out and saying what a lot of the Democratic base