Reply #20: did you make up some of these myths? [View All]

[Zomby Woof]

Some of those myths do not even exist, except in your post.

To point:

#2. Even his biggest detractors (like me) don't float that canard around. He is electable, as is everyone, right now. I have heard the "unelectable" charge thrown at the single-percentage polling candidates like Braun and Sharpton, but not Dean. Though I do not want Dean elected, I think he is as electable as the next person. A myth about the anti-Dean people: We "fear" Dean. No, we just don't think he is fit to be president. Employers generally don't hire people because they do not think they are the best qualified, not because they fear them, lol.

#4. Clinton was hot-tempered, and it occasionally surfaced, such as the infamous satellite feed broadcast of his swipes at Jesse Jackson, or the occasional scolding (well-deserved) of the press corps. Dean has had no such similar gaffe, but he is a slow burner, rather than an explosive type. It is no myth that people perceive Dean as being a flamehead, and perception is everything in politics. Even if the perception could be proven false, as long as the perception lingers, it will hurt him. It will turn off more voters than it attracts among the rank and file, rather than the diehards.

#5. No such dichotomy has been offered. His supporters take pride in him being angry, often relating how their own anger helps them relate to Dean. They actually put their hopes in his anger, so the two are intertwined in quite the deathgrip. Good luck to him. Hope can come in two vessels, either through anger or optimism. Dean uses anger as his vessel. The false dichotomy you offer is in itself, false, and non-existent.

#9. I love this one. I would like any Dean supporter on DU to tell me if they truly have ANY issues with which they disagree with Dean. Any. *crickets chirping* As for the "firm" support, well, yeah, we all know that. I get a similar obstinacy and refusal to listen to the facts from dittoheads, which is why I quit arguing with them years ago, maybe I should wise up with the Dean camp too.

#10. I have never heard this myth except when Dean people are telling us that this is a myth, lol. I certainly don't think he is McGovern - a decorated war hero and man of integrity. Dean IS Dean, and that is a problem enough for the Democrats.