So, the guy in the pickup with the confederate flag says to the reporter.. [View All]

[Starpass]

In last 48 hours the news media is playing a game called: go down South; find a good old boy with a truck with a confederate flag on it and inteview him (because they are harping on Dean's statement).

This has turned into a real no win/no win/blow up. I've seen answers ranging from a) I don't trust Dems and will never vote for them because they do everything for minorities; to b) I'll never vote for a Dem because of the terrorists/war stuff---Bush is doing right attacking those Muslims.

I hear a lot of raging (even here) how we have to reach out to these southern white boys. Are we suppose to a) campaign down there wearing a white sheet, caring a burning cross and a noose in order to appeal to redneck A?? Should we b) campaign in the South promising those good old boys that if we were in office we would attack the whole bloomin' Muslim world and not Mickey Mouse around like Bush to attract good old boy B???

In other words, this interviewing of these people are giving the republicans a beautiful propaganda moment to have "common people" spit on Dems. And on the other hand it puts Dems in a real ugly position of explaining to Dems everywhere how they would ever modify our message to "get" to people like this. Howard might want to be their president; anyone elected would be their president; but Howard and the others are going to have to do it without them and hopefully while in office change these peoples' minds. Talking economy, etc. isn't going to do it. They want us to change on the issues of minorities and on war. If we appease them, we lose Dems across the country. Apparently Zell wants us to change to this way of thinking to become "relevant" (he says the party doesn't connect and thus is irrelevant). No, Zell, we need 'that kind of thinking' to become irrelevant in this nation, not cater to it.