Anti-Climacus

QUOTE: Cogent analysis from Jonah Goldberg, of all people:

"But my point is not that this is Dean's strategy. No: This is Dean. He doesn't always actually say he's just having a little fun at other people's expense. But that's always what he's doing. We know this in part because Dean, like Bush 41, tells people his stage direction. Rather than appealing to lower-income southern white men who have Confederate flags on their pick-up trucks, he baldly says he wants to appeal to southern white men who have Confederate flags on their pick-up trucks — even though he concedes that they are racists. Rather than appealing to religious voters, he tells the world he wants to appeal to religious voters. He admits he lacks foreign-policy know-how, but it's okay because he'll be solving that problem with his VP pick.

It's the difference between saying "I love you, I think you're beautiful" and saying "Now I'm going to tell you how much I love you and how beautiful you are so I can get you into bed." "