OT: Some people are really confused

[ProSense]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2796381&mesg_id=2796381

[JohnKleeb]

1. I wouldn't say confused is the word

I was thinking $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

[ProSense]

2. Not money because

he's expressing a desire to see McCain as president while operating a company that promotes progressive values. He doing now because he was exposed. I'd say mole:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2796152&mesg_id=2796687

[JohnKleeb]

3. Yeah but wouldn't he get money from the McCain Camp?

and that would give him connections so he could get more. Either way the guy is a dirtbag.

[karynnj]

4. A more innocuous possibility is that some people respond to personalities

When Dean's web stuff was written up in 2004, many commented that there was a similarity between McCain's "straight talk" and Dean's angry, unpolished persona. (That McCain is not honest and Dean was a pretty rational VT governor doesn't change the perception.) Some of these people wouldn't know a political philosophy if it bit them.

[ProSense]

6. True that

he is simply responding to personalities, but he is certainly a poor judge of character. As far as philosophy, one would think that given the list of clients his company has and his claim to be advancing progressive ideas he would have a clue. It's simply pathetic.

[karynnj]

8. That goes without saying

It seems in 2004, he was lucky that the candidate whose style he liked was an honorable man.

[madfloridian]

7. .

[BlueIris]

5. Blech.

I hate DFA.

[madfloridian]

9. I think it is a fine group, very strong on the ground.

We don't feel the need to go on the internet and bash other groups who are working to take our party back.

[karynnj]

11. They are doing some very good work

They endorsed and helped two state assembly candidates - in my very Republican county. The candidates were excellent - winning was a long shot - and they didn't. I'm sure that having the DFA behind them did help. Their run also energized the Democrats in the county - so it likely helped on the state level races. (The Republicans need a huge margin in this county to balance some heavily Democratic counties.)

[TayTay]

10. This guy is a defector from DFA

Joining McCain proves that.

Odd that he would do that. You wouldn't think that someone who worked for a Dem like Dean would the go over to McCain. (They are so different from soup to nuts.)

Politcs and oddbedfellows and all.

I don't hate DFA or PDA or any of the other groups. Neither am I registered with them. I am just a Democrat.