Reply #9: Whoa there, pardner. [View All]

My point is that a I met a real live Republican for Dean, who had more good things to say about Dean than about Bush, and liked Dean for all the typical reasons that Dean supporters do - he was outspoken about his opinion, he is a good politician, he is a moderate.

Many Deanites swallow Dean's moderateness like an ulcer sufferer swallows his Maalox. They don't like it, but they do it anyway because they perceive no alternatives. They got in with Dean when he was against the war (sort of), and now they're locked in. They won't admit this, of course, but some of the people here who are Dean's most rapt followers were Green-types last time around, so you kind of get the idea where their true political sentiments lie. For those folks, Dean is a cult of personality more than a case of a natural political fit. When Dean leaves the scene, they'll be back to the next Kucinich, or Nadir, or whomever.