>For his ("shocking!") embrace of Confederate flag wavers, Dean is
>risking offending the liberal part of his following (pissing off
>blacks and "lefties"), and going for the "big Clinton umbrella".
>This move smacked of Clinton, who managed to do all sorts of things
>deemed offensive to the black voting bloc, but never really suffered
>for it---and grabbed Republicans at the same time......
He phrased it really stupidly this time, but in earlier versions of the argument, he pointed out, rightly, that the Reps were able to use race-baiting to get working-class whites to vote against their economic interests.
Doug