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[Mass_Liberal]

a Howard Dean democrat doesn't mean you won't vote for the nominee if it's not Howard. Otherwise, like you said, we would be called Deanocrats. A Howard Dean democrat is someone who believes that if we're going to be the opposition Party, we'd sure as hell better start opposing.


That means not voting with Bush, ever. That means not trusting a Republican to do the right thing with the authority to go to war. That means not voting for unfunded mandates. That means balancing the budget. That means making national security as much of a democratic issue as a republican one. That means making sure that the word patriotism doesn't belong to John Ashcroft, Tom DeLay, George Bush, and Dick Cheney. That means a democrat who saw Howard Dean, and in him, saw real passion in a politician for the first time in decades.

All of those things, and more that I missed, make a Howard Dean Democrat.