Reply #41: Typical self-connivance from Dean supporters [View All]

[Bucky]

This is one reason why Northeastern liberal intellectuals are not trusted and often disliked in Flyover Country (as discussed in another thread). The temerity it takes to suggest that Dean can win over moderate voters just because he has a right wing opinion on this one issue--a viewpoint that he shares with Bush, by the way--is not just absurd. It's dismissive of the intelligence of all voters in the states mentioned (West Virginia, Tennessee, and Colorado).

The reasons we lose in these states are diverse and deal with a broad range of cultural issues where the Republicans are trusted and the Democrats are not. For Dean's people (not Dean, btw, just his more arrogant supporters) to think they can win votes by tossing a few ideological pennies to the peasants as his carriage splashes past them is crude and numbskulled. This only reinforces the perception that Dean will tank and tank badly in the general election.