[AmusedBystander]

"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," the former Vermont governor said in an interview published Saturday in the Des Moines Register. "We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats."

It was at least the second time Dean publicly used the Confederate flag to describe Southern voters who often vote for Republicans.

[kearnyirish2]

He seems to be appealing to Democrats who fly rebel flags on their trucks - “a broad cross-section of Democrats”.

He has to pander like that now because he (like Sanders) is from one of the whitest states in the Union; no street cred with the ‘hoodrats.