Reply #12: Dean's incompetent and doesn't appeal to moderates

[billbuckhead]

Dean is always on some damage control mission. I'll never forgive him for embracing the NRA and the Confederate flag. I've always thought that was an extreme sign of weakness that pissed all over blacks and southern liberals while gaining absolutely nothing. Then there was his incompetant quoting of the bible, that was really persuasive here in the bible belt:eyes: Dean's anti war credentials have always puzzled me. Kucinich actually walked the walk while he was talking the talk, but didn't get the credit. Dean wasn't in office and didn't have to run again, so he didn't have to vote on the Iraq war. People forget that he was the first Dem out there campaigning and he mostly was trying to run to the right of Bush. Dean had to make none of the political sacrifices the other candidates had to make. He got on the antiwar bandwagon on the cheap. Dean got on a lot of bandwagons on the cheap. Vermont has less population than most urban counties. Hell, the mayor of Atlanta or most major cities has a far harder job than running Vermont or Montana while we're at it.

Howard Dean: “My kind of Republican”
Dean vows to beat Bush by running to Bush’s right
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
4:54 pm
Back in the fall of 2002 when nobody knew who Howard Dean was, on several occasions he explained how he was going to beat Bush: "People ask me how somebody's going to run from the 49th most populous state and beat the president... I'm going to run to his right. He's basically a borrow and spend liberal."
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