Reply #95: Dean wasn't selling his party out.

[Andromeda]

Criticizing your party isn't "selling it out." If more people had been paying attention to what was happening in '94 the Democrats would probably still be in control. They had been in control for so long they got careless and the voters punished them for it. Things had gotten stagnant and the right-wing propaganda machine was going full blast against Clinton and the Democrats did absolutely nothing to fight it. They had grown complacent and tried to ignore it thinking it would go away and look what happened. The Contract (on)) with America was basically a blueprint for change that went awry because Gingrich misrepresented it and Dean had no idea at the time how Gingrich would abuse it. Gingrich was a meglomaniac and we all know what happened to him. His greed for power and his corruptness caught up with him.

Dean is an honest man and if anything he is too trusting. He wants to do the right thing for everybody. Your attempt to demean him by taking his quote out of context is abysmal. Why don't you just let Gephardt's "superiority" over the other candidates be discovered by the people and if he's deserving, he'll be elected. If he isn't, then so be it. Gephardt's misuse of this "information" is also appalling because the only thing it does is make him look desparate.

Don't make such a mountain out this innocuous Dean statement made over 8 years ago.