DNC Chairman Candidates Focus on South.. Sure...

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. - Seven candidates for chairman of the Democratic National Committee promised Saturday to address the concerns of Southern voters, saying they had learned the lessons of the past two elections.

It's amazing that it took another ass whupping (right, I know that we 'almost' won, and that means a whole lot, considering the disadvantages, etc, etc.) and another two months for the Democratic elite to condescend to facing the people of the South.  Check back to the diaries and comments of the summer, and you will see that plenty of us were shouting at y'all for disregarding the South and for Kerry's playing it safe in a few comfortable states; it's a shame that they again refused to take us ignorant, backwards southerners seriously when they had a chance.  When Dr. Dean bought up the issue of guys in pick ups with Confederate flags, he was torn and new one, and the Democrat establishment who never had to think twice about, say, M-to-M busing were falling over themselves to be the first ones to express affected indignation over his comments.  Dean was right then, and he is right now.

"You want to know my Southern strategy, show up," said Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor who dropped out of the presidential race during last year's Democratic primaries.

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I know that I will hear a lot more grousing about how Democrats (that is NE and West Coast Dems) don't need the South because it is full of all those conservative bible thumbers with whom they don't want to associate; every time I hear this, I watch one more of my neighbors realize that he or she doesn't need a party that forsakes and insults them.  Regardless, I think it will become very clear 2 and 4 years from now that this new attention promised to the South will just be lip service to the fact that this meeting happened to be in GA this week.