Just What IS Howard Dean's Southern Strategy?This is kind of a weak opinion piece from a slightly conservative viewpoint but it raises an interesting issue:
Campaigns are embarrassing to every candidate. Everyone says something blisteringly stupid at some point. You spend all day talking, and your mouth is moving while your brain is off wondering when you might flee this damp, hot hall and find the restroom.
President Bush won't have this problem. He isn't trying to fight his way out of a pack; he doesn't have a glib nervy guy from his own party knocking him. It's scripted appearances from here on, with a dull debate at the end. No more misspeakerating....
Howard Dean, however, is fun. He's like Tigger. Always bouncing. Always something to say. And that's the problem.
Perhaps the biggest news Dean made in recent weeks wasn't for a Bold Policy Initiative, but his declaration that he is a metrosexual.
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You can imagine his brain's reaction when his mouth let that one go: I step away for six seconds and you lose the entire NASCAR dad vote.The piece goes on to discuss why Dems don't get the votes of white southerners. "When it comes to the swing voters, you have two groups: Social Moderates Who Don't Want Their Daughters to Wear Burqas for Bush, and Dixie Pedicure Enthusiasts for Dean."
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