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Thoughts on election 2004

They say that Howard Dean is no longer the front runner in New Hampshire. His turn of bad fortune has certainly been swift and unexpected. Is it because people are making such a big deal about his speech after he lost in Iowa? I don't see what the big deal is if he came off as a real person for a few minutes instead of a super smooth political phony. People complain tht all of our politicians are a bunch of phonies, but then whenever someone reveals the human being behind the political face, he gets pilloried. We get what we vote for. Or we get who the media tells us to vote for. If the media didn't make such a big deal about the speech, probably no one would have noticed.

I'm not even sure what Dean stands for, probably because the media is too busy reporting that he didn't look presidential enough during his speech. Dean is supposed to be more liberal than the other candidates. But considering that we have a liberal in the White House right now, who favors federalizing education, increasing government spending, opening our borders to massive immigration, what's the difference who wins the election?

A Dean victory could be the best thing for conservatives. I imagine he'll have a Jimmy Carter type of foreign policy, and the economy is going to do bad no matter who wins the election, so I'd rather Dean get blamed for it than a liberal pretending to be a conservative like Bush.

posted Friday, January 23, 2004