August 6, 2003
Politics
The more I hear...
The more I like. Dean says Democrats moving 'too far to the right'. Unlike the rest of the field, by and large, the man is not afraid to speak his mind, bluntly. He is very plain-spoken and is actually saying things in public that I've previously only seen in weblogs.
Stuff like this:
"Any one of (the Democratic candidates) would be better than the president they have now," [Dean] said. "But what our party really has to have is some backbone."
That includes, he said, not voting for Bush measures like the tax cut programs, which the Vermont governor said "have really harmed our economy and taken jobs away from Americans."
Dean said the only way to beat Bush in the next election is to confront him head-on.
"What the American people are going to see, should I get the nomination, is a Democrat who is not afraid to be a Democrat again," the 59-year-old internist said.
"In Washington, the game for too long among the Democrats was 'Let's try to be a little bit like (President Bush),' and that's not going to get us elected," he said. "The only way to beat George Bush is to stand up to him."
And by ghod somebody needs to!