Reply #14: He hasn't "revolutionized" anything-- but he's STOLEN a lot [View All]

Grassroots campaigns have been around for AGES. The Repubs used the same methods in the late '70s/early '80s to organize the religious conservatives and get them out to the polls. How do you think the "Reagan Revolution" happened? That's hardly "revolutionary" in any respect.

The only "revolutionary" thing Trippi has done is to disguise your typical top-down campaign and status-quo candidate in the language and lingo of the "grassroots" and "populism". He's just another political operative who knows how to "position" his candidate so that he appeals to those who "want change".

Face it: Trippi saw an opportunity and turned another Clintonesque corporate-friendly moderate into The People's Champion.

In fact, I'd argue Trippi borrowed more from the religious conservative playbook than he did from the Wellstone playbook. If anything, the "grassroots" of the Dean campaign is run from the top down. Marching orders are dispatched from Trippi and given to the masses below. Of course, it's all put in the "trappings" of grassroots campaigning so it doesn't "look" like the others.

Trippi, like most other ops, is more politics as usual. And all the baggage that goes with it.