Dean and the DLC

What I find most strange is what made Dean the demon to the DLC? When I look at the four candidates remaining he is clearly the conservative choice, not the liberal choice.

Since it wasn't his health platform or trade platform or his balance-the-budget platform that New Democrats opposed, I am left to conclude it was the fact he was an outsider and ran against special interests. How much of the Washington Democratic establishment that was against Dean was due to a fear of loss of influence?

As a 49-year-old Dean supporter I see his flaws, since December he has run a terrible mass media campaign, but the New Democrats embracing further left candidates as long as they are establishment or large-donor-group left candidates (unions and lawyers) to me says it is all about power and money.

The Dean campaign was about bringing power back to the people sick of what is happening to our country. The campaign was about telling the Democratic establishment to put up, fight back or get out.

As I note former DLC leaders contributing to Bush or campaigning for Bush it appears some have done the later.

Edwards is a second good choice as he run a positive campaign, has struck a good populist theme in the two America?s and appears great in debate, speeches and on TV. I am unsure if I will do anything more than vote for Kerry if he is the nominee because of his phone dirty tricks campaign against Dean and his lack of a serious record in the Senate. Dean's major flaw has been he is not a good politician, Kerry's flaw may be that he is nothing but a politician.