Reply #37: I hope there are lot more people who think about this.

[Skwmom]

The end goal - to get Bush out of the Whitehouse - is just to important to screw up.

I seriously considered Dean at first but was turned off by:

1. In the first debate I thought he came across as arrogant. Maybe I'm sensitive after putting up with rich boy Bush's arrogancy and smirks for going on 3 years but it was really a put off.

2. He couldn't take the heat on MTP. We need someone like Clinton who can take the heat.

3. I saw a pictorial of the various candidates in a magazine I read in my doctor's office. Dean's was the worst. He came off as very stiff. Reminded me of Gore (though I love Gore - he did have that problem).

4. His waffling on positions as documented by other posts in this thread.

5. He's sealed his Governor records. I've had enough of that crap from Bush.

6. Calling other candidates “Bushlite.” The more I learn about his record (what there is access to) the more I think the word could aptly apply to Howard Dean.

7. The obnoxious aggressiveness of some of his supporters. It really makes me wonder if some repubs haven’t been sent out to shore up Dean (they really remind me of some of the Bush supporters. They want to bash the other candidates while refusing to hear the truth about their own candidate).