A Redneck wants me to run to be a Wake County (NC) Commissioner. His suggestion came as a big surprise because he usually chides me for being a "Yankee".
All the more hysterical is that he hates Democrats. He knows I am a Democrat, but thinks I am "a different kind of Democrat". Maybe I am, I am a proud Liberal.
So I started to think, how can I be so Liberal but yet have a redneck man twice my age tell me to run for County Commissioner? Then it occurred to me, Howard Dean is right. By talking to those who we ordinarily wouldn't talk to, Democrats can and will win the battle of ideas.