Reply #6: I'm not a Dean supporter... [View All]

[asthmaticeog]

...but he sure did kick ass. If he were one of my top choices, he would have sold me today, no question, and if Dennis or Wesley drops out, Dean hits my top two for sure. If his hammering on Kerry can help swing primary voters to him or any other candidate, good on him. Plus, he did something I've been waiting to see a politician - ANY politician - do, and that's talk about programs realistically in revenue terms: "You want this program? We have this much money. If you want this, that or the other may have to suffer. So do you STILL want this? OK, let's see what we can do with this much money, or figure out how to get more. We can get more by raising this tax, or by changing the way we do something else. You want the tax to go up, or do you want ...(and so forth)" You're not going to get that kind of blunt truthfulness from an entrenched D.C. power-structure habitue like Kerry, I'm sorry.