Obama Continues To Jab At Romney's Job Record

As one who has enjoyed a "brief inside view of Dem party politics" as you claim, you know that you do not rise within either political party unless you have run the gauntlet and proven you're one of the team.  You have to buy into the group think, and that group think accepts the status quo that they are beholden to transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.

Howard Dean isn't any prize. He talks a good populist game, but he's as much a corporate Democrat when push comes to shove as any DLCer. Dean wants desperatel­y to be in with the DLC insiders, to play with the big boys so badly, but they don't want him.  

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. That's certainly true of Howard Dean.


Howard Dean's a nice guy, but he's not a liberal and definitely not 'married' to what I would say are sacrosanct Democratic Party positions, like pro-choice and public health care.  He's a politician­, just like all the rest of them (the Ickes, the Shrums, the Davises).  And even Dean, with his slightly leftward bent as evidenced by the 50-state strategy, was kicked to the curb by Obama and Rahm Emanuel after it successfully put Obama, the candidate perceived to be a liberal by voters in 2008, into power.

Anyone in the Democratic Party establishment has drunk the Kool-Ade.
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