Reply #157: You are failing to tease apart the fact that Dean was right but... [View All]

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the perception that people had at the time.

The facts: Dean was right, Iraq was a huge mistake.

The perception: Back in the primaries, it was only beginning
to be painfully obvious to all but "the choir" that Iraq was
a mistake. Also, Bush was still "infallible". The Dem
primary voters wanted to put up someone w/ military cred when
Saddam was caught. Personally, I think a Clark/Dean ticket
or a Dean/Clark ticket would have been our best bet. Two
Centrist plainspoken outsiders. That would have been way
better then a pair of politician-lawyers that voted for the IWR
and then fell into the trap of voting against add'l War funding.

Clark/Dean - Dean/Clark.

Also, it would have been a great break w/ the Lawyer tradition
holding too much sway over our politics.