[Paradox]

This piece has some real insight, especially the part about how Americans DON'T WANT to hate the President. I can't tell you how many people I know who didn't like Clinton, but thought the hatred of him was just too much, and thus rallied around him (at the time). Today, those same people kind of cringe when I mention their vote for Clinton back when... This fanning of the flames of hatred is just a bad idea, I thought so back during Clinton, I think so today as well.

I think Dean is going to pull HARD to the center once he gets the nomination. I think that is his plan all along, he is just USING the rabid hatred on the left to get him over that major hump.

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I think Dean is going to pull HARD to the center once he gets the nomination. I think that is his plan all along, he is just USING the rabid hatred on the left to get him over that major hump.

The Deaniacs are going to squeal so loudly when that happens! He’ll lose a significant portion of them to Nader, if he’s running again.

Just further illustrating that Dean is the GOP’s dream opponent.

[Timesink]

I think Dean is going to pull HARD to the center once he gets the nomination. I think that is his plan all along, he is just USING the rabid hatred on the left to get him over that major hump.

He can try that all he wants. He's not going to succeed. In the world of New Media - the internet, talk radio, etc - presidential candidates can't sit back any longer, smugly assured that the "mainstream" news media will cover the campaign only as a horse race, not even remembering what happened the day before yesterday. Everything Dean is saying and doing right now is going to be thrown right back in his face every single day next fall.