Reply #15: absolutely

[western mass]

Dannyred,

I'm a leftist and we're on the same page.

The Dem Party is adrift and clueless. The Dean campaign is a blueprint for what it's going to take to energize people behind this party again: aggressive, unapologetically partisan, vibrant at the grassroots level.

If other dems get a clue from the success of the Dean campaign, it's served its purpose. If all of the people who've been motivated by the Dean campaign to get involved in politics for the first time (or the first time in a long while)--and I've met very many--stay involved, this will be a wonderful thing. If Dean's charisma can push an aggressively anti-Bush message out into the mainstream, excellent.

For me, it's more about the campaign than the man.