Reply #61: Taking Back the Country takes more the right set of policies

[quaker bill]

What Dean gets is that being authentic is not about having the best policy papers, it is not a product of think tanks and polling.

It is actually standing up for what you believe to be true even when that involves risk. Packaged and handled candidates stick to the formula and "stay on message", they take no risks. Dean greets the news of the time and the day and speaks his mind on the matter.

Risk adverse behavior earned us 2000, 2002, approval of IWR, and the Bush* economic agenda. Risk adverse behavior will lose us 2004.

Dean has shown the ability to take retail politics national. Organization is the only chance to win 2004. Dean already has more people working for him here than Gore did on election day 2000. This is the answer, the only answer, to Bush*/Rove.