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[pearwaldorf]

Republicans for Dean

*scratches head* I know Dean is pretty much centrist in many regards, but this is still odd.

(The icon has nothing to do with anything, I just wanted to use it.)

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[aprilbegins.livejournal.com]

*laughs quietly in computer lab*

[frown.livejournal.com]

that is absolutely bizarre.

in terms of freakishly wide-spread mass-adoration with little cause, dean sort of reminds me of that antichrist guy from that left behind book series. i mean, the part about charming everyone magically. not being. you know. the devil incarnate.

(although...)

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

The magically charming thing is starting to wear off now, I think. He took a running head-butt at Clark a couple days ago in Iowa, calling him a "closet Republican" and all this shit. Um, hello, who's the son of an investment banker and worth seven figures and not-really-liberal-more-like-a-left-leaning-centrist here?

Dean needs to keep his fucking mouth shut, honestly. Hard-core duct-taping and everything.

[frown.livejournal.com]

seriously, man. i mean, if i had to pick one of the hopefuls that i liked the most, it would be clark, because dean's just sort of. ack. i didn't have much against him until i saw one of those talks they have where people in the audience ask questions, and he blew up at the person and told them to sit down and be quiet, and you could see the veins in his neck bulging and everything. it's like, WOAH, wait a minute, that is not comforting. i am having visions of the president bitchslapping someone during a peace talk.

but yeah, he makes a lot of statements like that about other people. it's like politics 101 or something -- yes, pointing out the flaws of other candidates makes you look good in comparison, but that can't be the basis of what you have to say. also, i am just sort of disturbed by the fact that in one of the televised rallies they had in iowa this mob of people started chanting "dean, dean, dean" in unison while he stood on a podium. it looked like something out of Buffy.

also, there is just something orwellian about the way people seem to blindly accept him as "THE democrat", simply because the media is calling him the front-runner. i mean, that's another thing i like about clark -- in all debates, he is very direct about answering questions. dean is like the King of Spin; i know once in particular they asked him a question about his views on giving smokers free health care, and he responded with a full minute about how to balance budgets. -___- but he doesn't give people a very clear idea about his opinions on things, and i don't find the fact he only seems capable of expressing these opinions one his website to be very comforting.

erm. yes. *climbs off soapbox o'dume*

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

Lord. I know. And Dean just shoots off whatever's in that fool head of his. Which I suppose is great, cause it means he's not all Establishment and shit, but it also makes him sound like he has nothing intelligent to say. I saw him on Hardball the other night and he walked RIGHT into a question designed to make him look like a backpedaling dolt.

*sighs* Clark. I really would like him to win, but he's too late jumping in the game and he has no fecking money. If Dean gets the democratic nomination (which is very likely that he will, despite the fact that all of a sudden the media's been like "Dean temper! Dean unlikeable!" for whatever reason), Bush has a much better chance to get re-elected. If Clark goes up against him, the Democrats might, y'know, win.

/soapbox

(Might I get your IM info somehow? I feel the need to be able to randomly wail at you in moments of political despair)

[frown.livejournal.com]

i know, i know. it's just pathetic, because i think that clark actually has the ability to appeal to the republicans as well as the dems on a much broader level than dean ever could, which is exactly what we need to get bush the hell out of the white house. aaaarrrgh. (i am actually really sad, by the way, that the al sharpton 4 prez camp doesn't have merchandise available. i want a sharpton '04 bumpersticker so bad.)

and you most certainly may! on AIM i'm 'miss super spy', and on YM i am 'painfulbread'.

[melodywenn.livejournal.com]

I actually have a friend in New Hampshire who left the Republican party so that she'd be able to vote for Dean in the primary. She wound up volunteering for the campaign, then was made an official writer on the gendean blog, and then was made staff. She swears that she's still a Republican at heart, though.

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

That's so great.

"So you believe in universal health care?"
"Yeah, I do."
"And you're Republican?"
"At heart, anyways."

The way political labels in this country function never fail to amuse me.

[aprilbegins.livejournal.com]

oh and

However, on Feb 1st, people will be getting together with friends all around the country to watch the big game. My hope is that hundreds of Dean supporters will use this as an opportunity to talk with friends about Howard Dean.

That's freaky, especially the second sentence. Sounds like having a pizza party to spread the word about Jesus Christ. "Have you welcomed Dean into your life?"

Oh well, Jesus is fun, and so is Howard I guess.

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

Oh lord. The Dean-ites are scary. My favorite Dean mantra call to arms campaign slogan is "Dean is the messenger. We are the message." It's creepy the way people gravitate to him without any real idea of what attracts them.