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Don Rua wrote:
[lots of worthwhile commentary snipped]

| I know, not a revelation
| I've uncovered, but a stated conviction of folks like Dean who say
| the right is evil. Starting about '64, a distaste towards prejudice
| and bigotry was indoctrinated into me by my father, a civil rights
| proponent. He didn't say I should hate bigots, but just that they
| were ignorant and afraid. And sadly, the bigotry I see towards "dumb
| redneck, red state, bible-toting neanderthals', the evil to Dean's
| good, has me feeling like the party is hypocritical, or at least made
| an about-face on tolerance and respect for others.

For the record, it was Howard Dean who said that the Democratic Party
should be reaching out to the guys with Confederate flag decals on their
pickkup trucks.  For that he was castigated by the old-line DP regulars.
~ While Dean's political positions are pretty centrist, that is a fairly
progressive and forward-looking thing to say.

TaB
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