Momentum is a Harsh Mistress
By Jim Dallas
I've been keeping track of what Karl Thomas has been saying, and I have to share his frustration (as well as hope - even if perhaps it is an unrealistic one - that, no matter how bad things look right now, that us Deanies can turn this thing around and win).
This sort of reminds me of a "moment" I had when the Iowa caucus results started coming. I had bought a little portable TV to watch things unfold.
From the start the results were depressing. I started to cry (don't worry, I cry a lot; you should have seen me balling when I went to go see Finding Nemo at the movie theater). Other folks frustratedly told me to "turn off the TV." We could see where this was headed, and we just wanted it to stop.
That was the moment when an older gentleman reached over the seat and cautioned me that this campaign was only a "vehicle". Which, after all, is what we've been saying for months now, hasn't it?
So anyhow. Some parting thoughts for Karl-T. We're right. They're wrong. We might win. We might not. But let's never, ever, ever give up.
Posted by Jim Dallas at February 1, 2004 05:40 PM
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Well, Jim, you might ascribe your enthusiasm to youth. I, for one, have no excuse. I am a woman of 50+ who has never given any money to a political candidate, yet has given willingly to Dean. I am as cynical as anybody who has been through Reagan I and II, Bush Senior and Clinton, soon to be beatified for his leadership of the Democratic party. Yet, Dean stirred something idealistic that I thought was lost in my twenties. Yes, we have our Bob Dole. Like sheep, they vote because somebody else thinks Kerry is electable and they try to read the mind of 80 million other Americans. To say that I am despondent, is to understate how I feel. The Republicans were done in by their hatred of Clinton, we are going the same way.
