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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
But yesterday you were just saying... [something about how people can't run like this and complain that they didn't win later... in this case, Dean didn't complain but many of his doe-eyed supporters do]. Any case, on a personal level, I like the guy.
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I don't think McCain or Dean complained when they lost. I'm pretty sure they both stuck to their guns and said "Hey, I told the truth and I paid for it." Neither one complained that the rules should be bent to fit them, and neither one said the voters were stupid for not picking them. They made calculated bets that their candor would work. It could be said that those bets were stupid, but in either man's case, I'd have to disagree. Both were fighting their respective parties' machine, and the only way they could have beaten the pre-ordained like Kerry and Bush in the primaries was to take a wild chance and have it pay off. It almost worked for both men, so I'm not sure it was stupid.
