Dean short on fans in Louisiana

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http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/washington/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1107329193315960.xml

He may be too liberal, ranking Demos say

By Bruce Alpert
Washington bureau

WASHINGTON -- Howard Dean, the front-runner to become the next chairman of the Democratic Party, will have a hard time increasing party support in states that supported George W. Bush for president because of his liberal image, the three Democratic members of Louisiana's congressional delegation said Tuesday.

Sen. Mary Landrieu and Reps. William Jefferson and Charlie Melancon said they would prefer the party choose one of Dean's three remaining challengers, although that seems increasingly unlikely...

Landrieu said she has not endorsed anyone for the job but believes that former Indiana Congressman Tim Roemer or Simon Rosenberg, president of the centrist New Democrat Network, "would have had a better feel for the Southern states, which are extremely important as we rebuild our party to be a nationwide party."

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1. Translation:

"He's a damn yankee. Donnie's not. Martin ain't. But Dean sure is a damn yankee. We don't want no damn yankee. Got it?"

Please note: Everyone on my mother's side is from the two of the oldest families in North and South Carolina. They go WAYYYYYYYY back. The South Carolina legislature voted to secede from the union in the back garden of my family's manse in Abbeville, SC. The roots are deep and I have been strongly inculcated in the culture while growing up in the north. I am sure that my mother, were she still alive, would give the same translation.

What this springs from, and so much more, is nothing but pure regional factionalism. Something my grandmother, who was more southern than any 20 other people anyone knows, would have called "unseemly". She would have called it "a result of poor breeding".

It ain't liberal we are talkin' here, its northern. Know it.

[JaneDoughnut]

2. Louisiana Dean fan here!

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[bluedonkey]

3. I like Dean

very much,but then I'm not from the South,I just love it here.I could imagine people would warm up to him if he would spent time getting to know the them.He has the same passion as southerners when it comes to politics.He speaks plain and from the heart.Too bad many Yankees have written off the South as unwinable.
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I am sooooo disappointed Landrieu voted for Gonzales,I want to cry!

[romwriter]

4. another deaniac here

and I am southern through and through. I even loved his scream!! I want him for the DNC. We need that passion in the party. And I agree that southerners would like him if they turned off their fox TV and conservative hate radio long enough to see the guy. Dean tells it like it is, straight up honesty. And he's fiscally conservative, balanced the budget when he was governor. What's not to like?
And I share your disappointment with Mary landrieu? It's years till she's up for re-election and it wasn't the republicans who voted her in in the first place. Why can't she show some guts and stand with her party. Now I know why I got no reply from her office on my email about the Gonzales vote. Is she trying to make friendly with Vitter. YUCK!

[Hippo_Tron]

5. Can Bill Jefferson grow some balls?

Louisiana 2nd is a blue district, a VERY blue district. He doesn't have to worry about his re-election and if he were pondering a Senate bid he probably would've done it this time. Can he stop talking like he needs to pander to conservatives to win?