Reply #24: He said

[renie408]

"I CAN'T just go out and say..."

I think you are probably correct on your interpretation that he is saying that whether or not he tells them to go, they are going to do what they feel like. But if somebody wants to be picky on wording, it looks like he is saying that he can't tell them to support someone else. Also, the whole quote appears to me to be a form of minor blackmail, i.e. "If you don't vote for me, too, then the Democrats will lose my supporters."

And what I got out of Funk's post was not that he was trying to sell THIS particular article from THIS particular magazine, just that Dean has gotten repeatedly hit with negative press lately. I think it was the sum of the negatives added together that he was trying to get across. He said that taken individually, none of the points seemed important enough to post separately, but taken as a whole, they look damning. If you are looking for Dean to be damned. If you aren't, they are not going to bother you.