Reply #9: Many, many people felt the way you do [View All]

[LittleDannySlowhorse]

Like I said, it's completely understandable why a lot of people didn't warm up to Dean. He was utterly polarizing, as most of the posts here will bear out --- I read very few posts here that said "Oh.. I don't know... Howard Dean... I guess he's OK." People were either FOR him or AGAINST him in most of the cases I saw. My mother, whose Democratic credentials are engraved in stone and whose political opinions I greatly respect, hated his fucking guts and was thrilled when he dropped out, as were a lot of other progressives I know whose opinions I respect. I have to believe that reaction was just as valid as the positive reaction that I had to him.