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Dean, waning
I know you covered this in the past, but I was once moderately enthusiastic about Dean until a friend who's a big booster pointed me to the Dean Issues Forum. A little time there and I suddenly realized "wait, not only am I not going to influence policy by participating here, many of the pro-Dean people here don't agree with my reading of his platform statements". Doubt crept in. Then I did a little looking about on "electability", and I wasn't dissuaded too much, because I'm not registered as a Democrat, but I started wondering because I think it's most important that we unseat Bush, everything else is secondary. Then, of course, came the infamous CMU "smart cards" speech, one which the best apology for says: "...his advocacy leaves Dean guilty of little more than naivety." To which my response (scroll way down) is: "If I wanted someone naive who could be molded and guided by an unscrupulous campaign manager, I'd have voted for Dubya." I'll still put principle aside in getting Dubya unseated and vote for whomever seems most likely to do that, but no matter who the Democrats nominate I won't be voting for anyone, just against the current administration.
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