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« on: February 10, 2004, 11:06:11 PM » |
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It is not because he was easily carcatured. It is because he was a caricature of himself. Do you know that for two or three days after the Iowa caucuses, Dean's website had the speech posted at the top. It said, "Last night Governor Dean gave a rousing speech in Des Moines." It continued to list Dean's order of states, punctuated every now and then by, "you know something? You know something?" and omitting only the screech. I showed this to a friend in my computer class who has no strong interest in politics and no major leanings, and had never heard of Dean. I read it to him in a bland, not passionate, not snide voice, and he said "sounds like a very angry person". The best comparison I can think of to Dean is a Hitler book-burning rally, or Donald Duck angry. His take on the dems single weakest issue, national security, was unbelievable. Kerry campaigns like it is still September 10. Well, Dean campaigns like he's opposed to all war and can't believe it has ever done any good, in other words like it's never been 1939, 1861, or 1776. Or since the dawn of time. Inother words, like he was out of touch with reality. Osama, who has admitted to murdering 3,000 Americans, dhouldn't be presumed guilty. The capture of Saddam Hussein, one of the most monstrous tyrants in recorded history, leaves us no safer? Not to mention the fact that the man likes to broadcast his campaign strategy to the world in the clear. Like, "you'll hear me talking more about Jesus", then roceeding to say the book of Job was his favorite New Testament book and that Jerry Falwell and his ilk were like the biblical Pharisees. You have to give him credit for insulting the Jews AND the Christians in one breath, that takes work. Does he even know the Pharisees were the ancestors of modern rabbinic Judaism? Dies he care? I think I can answer both questions. Just the other day, I heard him on CNN talking to Wof Blitzer. Wolf wanted to know if he would drop after Wisconsin. Dean answered "I've studiously avoided answering that question by saying, 'we're gonna win!'"I mean sheesh! Then there was the real hatred the man exuded for Bush, anyone who even considered entertaining the notion ever that Bush might have been honest at some point in his life, perhaps at six months, and any democrat who dared to oppose his nomination, and you have a candidate who's prettypungent to any not under his hypnotic thrall. Again, like Hitler. Top it all off with wanting to get rid of McAuliffe in the long term and give him orders in the short-term, and his statements about how the dems had to leave the centrism of the nineties behind. All things considered, I'd say. not a very attractive candidate. At all.
But did GOPers hate him? Naw. We loved him!
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