I'm losing sight of my candidate. I see him off in the distance, obscured by the media's constant screeching soundbites, his campaign's maneuvering, his opponents' smears, his endorsements, his poll numbers, the growing conventional wisdon around him. I see the articles, the editorials, the newsclips, the Sunday morning talk shows. Somewhere beyond all that I can see the fading outline of Dr. Howard Dean.
Forest. Trees. Etc.
No, I don't think he'll lose the nomination. I don't think he's become a bad candidate. I don't think he's polarizing, alienating, angry, flippy floppy or any of that.
I just miss him. I miss the unobscured view I had of him mere months ago. It almost brings me to tears. I feel like he's been picked up and carried off.
I go back and re-read his policy and rally speeches as if they were love letters. I recall from them with perfect lucidity my Morpheus moment: "He is the one".
I know he's tried to cut through the bloody dense fog of media lies and oppo attacks and conventional wisdom that's thickening by the minute. I know whenever he tries, he's alleged to have uttered another "gaffe".
Does this make any sense? Sigh...
I miss the man.