Reply #9: I think your theory is right on the money. [View All]

[BurtWorm]

What I was looking for in a candidate is someone who demonstrated he saw what I saw and is as outraged as I am. I was not looking for an idealist or ideologue, because I think ideology has been the left's weak point, politically, while being its strong point philosophically, since the 1960s. (I mean simply that leftist ideology tends not get Americans en masse into the voting booths.) I was actually looking for someone grounded in reality, who saw what was going on and who wasn't afraid of saying it. I think a lot of people who were outraged by the impeachment and "election" 2000 were looking for the same kind of candidate, and truth-telling Howard Dean fit the bill.