Reply #84: Then we've already lost

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Like I said before, you cannot beat Bushco at their own game. THEY set the rules. THEY will win. THEY will still raise the most money, "people-powered Howard" or not.

But if you think the Democrats need to keep playing the same old hopeless corporate/Republican game of "buying" votes (instead of using PEOPLE POWER and the GRASSROOTS to spread their message) then please go right ahead.

And don't be suprised if we lose, yet again, to the guy with the most cash, who will undoubtedly be Shrub/Cheney.

For a guy who's not about "politics as usual", Dean sure is playing this whole thing like a good politician.

If he starts by caving on the public financing issue, what's next? Will he also start taking $$ from Haliburton, Bechtel, Boeing, et. al.? We already know he's got power company execs and AOL/Time Warner execs writing checks to him-- what's to stop him from taking more dirty corporate money?

This move just confirms my worst suspicions about him: a faux-"populist" campaign that's actually run top-down, but with just enough "participation" by supporters to make it seem like they actually have a say in it.

Howard Dean won't change this country. He'll just become the new head at the top of the corporate-dominated beast. Mark my words.