We Dean kool-aid drinkers, and the rest of you, saw in Dean a man spoiling to remake the political process from the ground up. "Don't we all want that?" I asked myself. So after my tears all dried up...I saw something.
It's as though the Russians had a chance to vote for a partial-Czarist or Vladimir Lenin, and they picked the partial-Czarist. "Things aren't quite bad enough that we need Lenin. We're glad he's there, making the current guy seem moderate, but seriously we didn't want to fight THAT hard."
Every young idealist can almost smell the remaking of the world for the better when they first awaken to their idealism. For many of us, we couldn't believe that Dean was going to make those ideals happen. We were SOOO close.
Instead of a revolutionary, we've chosen a repairman. For that I am disappointed, but I see the point...kind of...