Reply #109: winning involves taking the republican voters...

[sweetheart]

who are disenchanted with bush, more than having a glee club amongst the Democratic party. Also given the foregone election strategy of fear, security and security, only a credible deterrent candidate can combat in the media-climate of republican partisanism.

The republicans are afraid of clark, 'cuz he can cut their own party down the middle and leave them only a band of neocon fundies with no voting base... not in the northeast... in the swing states and in the south where military credence and a non-partisan track record are very very valuable... as well, not having the fringe of vietnam war protestors as the mainstay of one's populus is also a help.

All these candidates are comprimise candidates in my view. When is give up dreaming of DK - president... i am rather only focused on who has the chance to win, as they all have mediocre platforms.

Clark is the man the republicans fear. Dean's anti-establishment approach risks being branded as weak and petty by a very viscious propaganda machine. If i pretend, for a moment, to be back in my previous skin as a once-reagan voter hating carter (sorry!)... i would want to face dean, as he is easy to crush given the way republicans fight.

I hope i'm wrong... and if dean wins, i'll swallow my dissent and kiss ass to the big hope.... but please lets not go there. I know in my bones that clark will win, and i wish i did not know similarly that dean is a mcgovern. Clearly dean supporters would hope i'm just an opinionated wrong-seeing person... time will tell.