Dean: "We're Never Going to Give Up on Alabama Again"

From the B'ham News:

The national Democratic Party will wage an aggressive campaign for votes in Alabama during the 2008 presidential election, party Chairman Howard Dean said today in Birmingham.

“We’re never going to give up on Alabama again,” Dean told members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The national party put little effort into winning votes in Alabama last year in the face of Republican George W. Bush’s popularity.

Yeah, right. Dr. Dean is either exaggerating, as he's been known to do from time to time, or he's dumber than I thought. To commit the party's limited resources to Alabama in a presidential race would an exercise in futility, and everyone inside and outside of the Democratic Party knows it - with the possible exception of Howard Dean.

There's a reason that this state has been written off by Democratic presidential nominees in recent elections, and that is that the vast majority of Alabamians find little common ground with a party in which leftists like Howard Dean and John Kerry have been elevated to the highest levels of leadership. Glitzy TV ads and efforts to disguise the party's core liberalism with Southern accents and insincere talk about "God, guns, and gays" won't ever change that.

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