Reply #81: Completely obvious is not obvious enough when the primary concern

[John_H]

of a "movement" is the movement itself. Think about it: How many times--here on DU, in the press, in conversations--has the primary focus regarding Dean been the the campaign itself? It's outsiderness. Its inssurectionness, its grassrootsness, its power-to-the-peopleness. Even more telling is that even his staunchest supporters seems to be the campaign. How many people are going where. What press event has just occured. What Joe Trippi says.

This election is going to be about national security like it or not. Rove's 200 million and the media will see to that.

Sooner or later the decision is going to have to be made whether or not the power to the people rhetoric is more compelling than the fact that dean is going to be portrayed by the media and the GOP and thus percieved as the weak on the campaign's main theme.