Reply #74: YO! We're not saying the guy is WRONG. [View All]

[gauguin57]

Obviously, we agree with what Dean is telling Southern voters. But the point of CAMPAIGNING is to WIN votes. I guarantee that saying this stuff IN THIS WAY is NOT going to win him anything in the South. It'll just piss people off south of the Mason-Dixon, and make them think he's a self-righteous Northern elitist who thinks they're a bunch of Philistine hillbillies ... and that he knows best about how they should think and vote.

As people pointed out earlier in this thread, there are way better ways of saying this if you want to win.

And one doesn't have to be some right-winger to think Dean should resculpt his rhetoric a wee bit!