Reply #67: I agree [View All]

[murdoch]

I am not really down on Dean, but I am when he is presented as a populist and this other nonsense. Some article I read called him a "fighting moderate Democrat" and that's exactly what he is. Unlike many Democrats, he does not just lie down and let conservatives roll all over him. So there are good qualities to him.

But I cringe when I hear Dean being misrepresented. He is not at the left of the party, he is not "very liberal" and he is not a populist. He is good at riling up his supporters, who are not blue collar working class Americans frankly. One reason being his economic ideas.

Personally, I was (and still am, although he's retired) a fan of Dick Gephardt. His father was a Teamster, he always fought for labor, and he was a typical Midwestern guy who could relate to Midwestern blue collar people. He didn't get white collar yuppies living in the suburbs of big cities excited like Dean, but I liked him.

I'm not really down on Dean, although I am unhappy with the DLC economic policies that have infected so much of the party. He is good at what he does. But he is misrepresented too often.