Reply #7: Actually, he's trying to position himself as a centrist [View All]

And he's said over and over and over that he is a centrist. At most, if not all, rallies he says he's a centrist and he tells folks, essentially, that they'll agree on many things and disagree on many others.

He used Wellstone's phrase because he saw the anti-Iraq-war Democrats being totally ignored (and sometimes ridiculed) by Democratic "insiders". It was a way of saying that he *is* listening and the others aren't.

Also, Dean's priorities are straight. He is fighting on the correct side of the biggest issues, and Kerry and Gephardt are trying to smear Dean on piddly issues by saying, essentially, "Dean's not liberal enough".

Well, I don't exepect any candidate to be "liberal enough" for myself or to agree with everying I agree with.