Reply #4: I understand what you mean

[La_Serpiente]

I understand what you mean. I'm a Dean supporter myself, but I couldn't go back to Kerry. I'm never going to forgive him for the Iraq vote.

My other criticism about Kerry is not that he supported the war, but it is that he is part of the Washington Culture. They really don't listen to the Democratic voters anymore. And besides, many people will view him as being some kind of Massachusetts liberal.

However, I've been wavering between Kucinich and Dean. Now Kucinich WILL probably never have a chance to be elected. But he knows what he is talking about.

Kucinich understood the broken spirit in the Democratic Party. Dean had some understanding of it, but not the whole picture. We could go into the election next year and the liberal groups will throw all this money at it. But that's not the problem. A lack of money is not the problem now. The Democratic Party needs to do some SERIOUS soul searching. I think that Kucinich is the one that can soothe that wound.

Why is soul searching important? Because it's what brings out the vote.

Many Democratic voters in California didn't come out to vote because, even though they didn't vote for Ahhnold, they felt that their party was useless.

However, I am a forum moderator and I know that we will be putting together the policy for the Dean campaign soon. We even have a forum for fixing the Democratic Party.

Kerry and the rest of them don't understand what we in the heartland are saying. While they are all smug and comfortable in Washington, we're out here left to hanging while they give the President a blank check to go to war. There is a huge disconnect between the Washingtonians and the Party Activists. This war created a huge schism in the party.

And I don't like the DLC. I like the DNC because we always need some type of speaking pulpit. But the DLC does not represent the values that this party has held for a very long time. They feel that they are the embodiment of all Democrats.

What the DLC did was make us "less ambiguous" as a party. They need to wake up and realize where the party is instead of just looking at polls and determining their policy from there. That's Karl Rove type of policy making.

I know how you feel, but the Dean campaign will have a much more concrete policy two to three months from now. Just stick with the campaign and maybe we'll see something amazing happen.