Reply #30: How Funny That You Responded, Of All People!

[DrFunkenstein]

"His love of simplistic and polarizing language makes him seem more along the lines of Dean and Kucinich's more embarassing devotees (which are more than adequately represented here at DU)."

There are a handful of people around here who seem to do little more than deliver succint (to put it nicely) attacks on other candidates. At least I can at least say they are consistent.

However, when it comes time for the general elections, if Dean is stll around, you can be sure that he is not going to be flaunting his zealots on the Left as a reason to vote for him. He is going to try to switch himself from a centrist to a moderate. Moderates don't have drum circles and giant puppets. I have a feeling that quite a few Dean supporters are going to be quietly scraped off like so much clinging barnacle. And they probably won't realize it.

Dean is already denying himself as the anti-war candidate (he sure wasn't doing THAT a few months ago!), and pushing himself as a tough-talking centrist. The funny thing is that the progressive anti-war movement may suddenly find themselves zealously defending a candidate entirely removed from their own passionate causes, ignoring the centrism in favor of the tough talk.