Another Dean flip flop (switches sports teams)

[quinnox]

From the AP:

The Kerry campaign, reacting to the news that Dean will hold a rally in Boston Tuesday, brushed back the former Vermont governor by labeling him a New York Yankees fans.

Not so, said the New York-born Dean, who argued that he dumped the Yankees for the Boston Red Sox three years ago. Dean told the Boston Herald that Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens' beaning of Mets catcher Mike Piazza during the 2000 season was the final straw in his support for the team; he called the Yankees' charge "the biggest insult."

That didn't placate the Kerry campaign, which described Dean's switch as the latest in a series.

"Of all the flip flops, this is the most inexplicable and indefensible," Kerry spokeswoman Kelley Benander said Monday. "It's like switching from the Redskins to the Cowboys or from Carolina to Duke."


Why does Dean have to pander all the time, even over insignificant stuff like this?

Edit for link - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&nci...

[Pepperbelly]

1. I think that all of them were joking a bit ...

but I know how to test to see if Dean is a real Sox fan. Someone who sees him in person, say, "Buckner," and tell us his response.

[MrJones]

2. That's not a real test.

See if he can say "Bucky Dent" without an appropriate insertion between the names.

[Pepperbelly]

4. and the Yankees do suck in THREE ...

very specific ways...



on edit: if you look at his face when you say Buckner, that will tell the tale. No scowl, no red, no Sox.

[salin]

26. Quinn

oh.. guess I just showed my true fan colors

[KaraokeKarlton]

3. Vermonters typically prefer Boston teams over NY teams

So it's really not surprising that Dean likes the Red Sox.

[Cha]

5. You know what, quinnox!?

Dean can change his mind if he wants to... without you, disingenously, getting on his fu=king Case!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Great contribution to the site.

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[Cha]

17. Funny enough, I just became a Red Sox fan myself a few weeks

ago after reading someone's Poignant post(forget who) about why they liked the Red Sox ...and I don't even watch baseball anymore but I want them to win! Maybe it was matcom's

[RogueTrooper]

7. Obviously

the Kerry campaign are trying to attach the flip-flop meme to something the average joe "gets".

Nice try, fellas. Patronizing, but nice try none the less.

[Orangepeel]

8. is this from the Onion? (nt)

[robbedvoter]

9. Ha!Ha! A silly story like this was circulated against Hillary

when she was running for senate: that time she was not trusted to be an actual Yankees fan (which she was).
I believe that, before being bought over, The Daily news also ran a headline during the mayoral campaign: "Bloomberg is a Sox fan"
I guess I am missing a gene, I don't understand this fixation with sports teams.

[depakid]

10. Yeah, well I used to be a Dodger's fan

until Rupert Murdoch bought them. Now I hope every year that they lose 120 games a year.

[NNN0LHI]

11. Another "when did you quit beating your wife" question?

Again. There is no correct answer. Who the hell is sitting around thinking this crap up to ask? Makes me wonder? Sounds like dirty tricks to me. And the media is helping out too.

An example would be my state, Illinois. The top half of the state likes the Cubs or Sox. The bottom half are Cardinal fans. Hey governor. Which baseball team do you like best? Ummm, emmmm, ummmm, I don't know? Don't sound like presidential material. What we have to realize is that there are a lot of unanswerable questions out there when one is a politician, and not dwell on them.

Don

[uptohere]

12. I have never heard of switching between those teams

They should be talking to the Guiness Book people over this.

Its got nothing to do with politics but, I mean damn, you just CANT go from the Yankees to the Red Sox. Or visa versa. Especially over something that the Rocket did !

Good thing I was sitting down when I read this !

[no name no slogan]

13. And I heard DEAN talking trash about yo mamma, too (n/t) :)

[Jim Sagle]

14. This thread ain't nuthin' but shit.

[Khephra]

15. If this is the best the Kerry camp can do against Dean

Then Kerry might as well quit now.

Seems I remember a whole lot of moaning from the Kerry camp about a certain "cheesestake incident". They wailed and gnashed their teeth over how pathetic that was. So what do they do? This?

Pathetic. Really fucking pathetic.

Kerry, you better get a refund on the people who are running your campaign. They're fucking idiots.

[sham]

16. OMFG!!!

You know, I also heard that Dean recently decided to switch from Heinz to Hunts brand ketchup.
What a fucking waffler, pandering to the Hunts demographic like that when everyone knows Heinz is better!!!

Oh the humanity!

In other news: a staunch Pepsi drinker, Howard Dean was also on the wrong side during the Cola Wars.

I'm marching back over to deanforamerica.com right now and DEMANDING MY CONTRIBUTION BACK!!!

[Cha]

18. ON the down side of becoming a Red Sox fan he is going

to have to answer to Yankee fans in New York!

I'm in New York and I don't like the Yankees!

[einsteins stein]

25. Well, Kerry already has the Heinz vote wrapped up

So can you blame Dean for playing ketchup?


sorry, that was just uncalled for.....

[NewYorkerfromMass]

19. who cares if Clemens beaned Piazza? He's a MET!!!

As a former Red Sock that's actually understandable behavior... now if he had beaned NOMAR?
Dean's pandering for votes in NH IMHO.

[zeemike]

20. I am a flip flopper myself

I flip from one underdog to the other all the time.

[uptohere]

22. bad bad bad

I stick with my underachieving Seahawks (well not this year so far) and Braves no matter what.

Its not easy or fun but you have to be true.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

21. Nahh. Sports teams aren't important.... no big deal.

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/AP_Photo/2003/09/23/...

[Forkboy]

23. you are one desperate person

[WilliamPitt]

24. rrrrrrrRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHaaaaaauuuuhhhhhhhhh

ahhhh duuuhhh pzzzcheeeeez....