Howard Dean: The UnNader?

[mzmolly]

It's a rare man whose real interest is the welfare of the people, even if there's not much personal gain. Maybe you are that man.

But there are still plenty of independents out there waiting to be persuaded, and plenty of disenchanted young people who think the new boss is likely to be the same as the old boss. The party needs you to help bring those people to the table, and to get them to vote. They were the people you engaged in the primary. Some of them are the people who, in a recent poll, were so disenchanted that they were willing to turn in alarming numbers to Ralph Nader, the Harold Stassen of his generation.

Nader says he wants to make a point, but I suspect you would prefer to change policy. He will be satisfied with some twisted Pyrrhic victory; you want an actual one. It's a rare man who says that his real interest is the welfare of the people and means it, even if there's not much personal gain associated. Maybe you are that man.

Your Web site, so widely touted as the new town hall in the Internet age, has been frozen in time, its press releases ending on Feb. 18. But last week you began to thaw, meeting with John Kerry in Washington. He's not your dream candidate; he has to sidestep all that happened while the Democrats were comatose in Congress, particularly that war resolution. But you know that he will be far better on the issues you care about—health care, fiscal policy, the safety net, reproductive rights—than the Republican alternative.

Unlike most catalyst candidates, who make things happen and then disappear, you could use your influence to bring young people to the polls, to convince them that what happens in the Oval Office really will affect their lives and that they have a stake in affecting the outcome. You could convince like-minded independents that there is a real difference between the two parties and point out where their true interests lie.

Continue here...
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4522514/

Thanks to Duder for this information. :hi:

[wryter2000]

1. Wonderful

Thank you so much.

[madfloridian]

2. That lady sure gets it, mzmolly. Change, not personal gain.

I just shared that with a mailing list. That is why he says things others don't, because he is not after personal gain.

[mzmolly]

3. Yes she does Madfloridian...

;)