Dean's ability to inspire is amazing

[kerryistheanswer]

I'm watching him on CSPAN now. His supporters love him - so much passion there. I really love the Dean movement - I just don't believe in Dean's candidacy.

If he does decide to drop out, I'll miss him. Someday, I'd love to have a hot cocoa with him. Maybe he'll inspire me to write the two papers I have due tomorrow!

[onebigbadwulf]

1. Or the computer program I have due Friday

=)

[AndyP]

2. or my genetics paper

.... shoot just thought about the pharmacology paper due next week. Damn I could use a good shot of Dean right now.:think:

[aquart]

3. Fortunately, he inspired our other candidates

to come out from under the bed and challenge Bush on his lousy stinking record.

If he should drop out, will their courage? Or is the sight of Bush on the run sufficient to keep Dems on the attack?

I'm glad you were inspired, such as it is. Perhaps one day it will be enough to get your papers written.

I'll vote with the boy what brung me.

[NashVegas]

4. Dean Talks *to* People

He doesn't just stand up there and pontificate.

Unfortunately, more people vote for those who do the latter.

I'd love to see Dean take a spot on Al Gore's TV network, once he gets it up and running.

[madmax]

5. He's another gift to the Democratic party

He is inspiring. He has brought the party back to it's roots. I hope there is a future for him in a new Dem administration. We could use more like him and Clark.

[JackRiddler]

6. I don't care about "gifts to the Democratic Party"

Any support from me it will have to earn. Some bozo will now as usual come along and talk about how teenie-weenie my little vote is, how no one has to convince me, how I'm just a radical not Mr. Nascar Dad or Mmme. Swing Voter, and in the process they will forget that my attitude (if not my views) corresponds to the attitude of the American majority, whatever their politics.

They don't like parties, rightly so given the sorry history, and they say:

"Any support from me it will have to earn."

That's the attitude of your swing voters. Whom Dr. Dean could have captured and Kerry probably won't, except for the reality that Bush is such a horror that he is chasing everyone away anyway.

(Which means, of course that "Anybody" will beat Bush, big deal; unless the Bush mob steals it, which they will try with Anybody regardless of Anybody's bogus "electability." Something so simple to understand, and yet it became increasingly hard for the DU majority to understand it, because they bought into the fear, they fear Bush.)

Any support I give to the Dems is provisional. I care about truth, justice, freedom, solidarity, the real American way, the Bill of Rights, economic reason.

The Democratic Party has only pretended to be about those things.

Dean worked for me because he told some truth. Because you could tell he wasn't part of the script.

For that reason he was clobbered. By this Democratic Party, in a dirty fashion.

To whose fold he will no doubt return, human nature being what it is, and he won't want to appear as a destroyer. But I don't care if he was a "gift" to this party, and that's not what was of value about him.

The party is useless in itself. If only its voters had realized that, long ago, it would have reformed or made way for something better.

Instead we will get the eternal recurrence of

Mr. Soft War/Happy Face on Capitalism
vs.
Mr. Hard War/Sourpuss Big Money.

So here we are. And you, Anybody, may get my vote. Big deal. In fact, it's pretty much sewed up. Anybody but Bush. Sure. But I ain't lifting a finger for the Party of Nicer Gangsters.