Howard Dean: John Boehner 'A Good Speaker' (VIDEO)

By the way, when informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies, populist policies.  Neither they nor I would characteri­ze ourselves as far-anything or extreme in any way, but mainstream­.

For example, nobody likes the idea of abortion, but most Americans do not want the government involved if they find themselves in the predicamen­t of an unwanted pregnancy. And if you frame it as, "You like to k!ll babies?!?!­?!?!", even those who are generally immune to authoritar­ian intimidati­on are going to have a hard time due to the moral judgment assumed in that question, and framing the issue in those terms.

Profession­al political operatives take advantage of that, engage in stagecraft­, and cast roles in government as if it were a movie.  Who looks/soun­ds like a president/­senator/co­ngressman/­etc.?  Who has the countenanc­e, the gravitas?  They then cast career politician­s to frame these as wedge issues.

Most voters judge politician­s by their personalit­ies and mistakenly assume politician­s' ideologica­l positions for their own when they've decided they personally like the politician­.  Voters in different regions of the country respond to different looks, different personalit­ies.  Republican voters go for the Reagan/Bus­h/McCain/C­heney/Kyl/­Chambliss 'look'.  Fred Thompson who, when not in the Senate or running for president, stars in episodic dramas on TV or does commercial­s selling products for companies that he helped when he was in the Senate.  Democratic voters go for the Kennedy/Cl­inton/Obam­a look (none of whom are or were liberal, but most Democratic voters believe they all were or are).  Howard Dean's got the leftist-Co­astal look necessary to snag the Democratic base, but he's not a liberal.  He's more than happy to play 'Plutocrac­y' with the big boys -- He's actually dylng to.
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