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You don't need to draw a deep breath. You just need to stop drawing your air in through a tube that contains some combusting herb.
History shows that Kerry had a better chance than Dean since it was KERRY who gained (to my horror!) the Dem nomination. Once the DLC members made their choice and the party delegates leaned heavily in that direction, Dean was
done like a steak left on the grill too long.
Dean was trying to align himself with the semi-historical basis of the Dem party. However, the
Limousine Liberals who run the Dem party want nothing to do with "all that bullshit" anymore. The semi-historical platform of the Dem party is quite simply bad for Hypercapitalism. If you prioritize the general populace in your social policies, you endanger corporate profiteering, the socialization of costs, and the overall hoarding of private wealth. The elites who now control the Dem party aren't going to jeopardize their own class in that fashion.
THEREFORE, Dean had no chance. Sure, there was a significant popular following for Dean. However, the Dem party is as baseless as the Repubs are, in that party politics determine the matter, not philosophy. Once Dean failed to secure the nomination powers from the elite, the elite were in control nearly no matter how many people backed Dean. As each primary went largely to Kerry, Dean's backing evaporated ... because at their core, Dems are spineless and won't risk losing the election. Once Kerry demonstrated his lead, he was in. It was inevitable at that point. The Dems are always going to choose "electability". (Kerry was an East Coast Lib, anyway, which is a frequent "safe bet" for Dems.)
The same thing is going to happen in 2008, which is the hilarious thing. Clinton and Obama are the same type of elitists as Kerry and Gore were, and essentially have their foreheads stamped "
APPROVED" by the leading investment bankers. They are a
terrible choice for the semi-historical Dem platform (you know, people over profits,
blah blah blah) ... but since that platform is 99.9% in place for PR reasons, it doesn't matter. Millions of Dems will vote because they've "always voted for the party of the working man" (this is where you tend to hear the sound of my vomiting) and will click and tap for the Clinton/Obama ticket purely on that basis. Clinton will continue the destruction of their class of person, but as "Default Dems" they aren't very smart anyway, so there's THAT.