The LAST thing I would EVER want to know about a Presidential candidate is their sexual philosophy. That's just a wee bit too much information about something I really don't need to know anything about.
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean tried to be all things, except George W. Bush, to all voters on fundraising stops in Boulder and Denver on Tuesday.
The pack-leading Democrat hit all the marks, courting fiscal conservatives and social liberals. He bashed the war and pumped up his plans for universal heath care, renewable energy and investments in schools, highways and broadband Internet for everyone.
Dean declared himself a "metrosexual," the buzz phrase for straight men in touch with their feminine sides, as he touted his accomplishments in "equal justice" for gay and lesbian couples. But then he waffled.
"I'm a square," Dean declared, after professing his metrosexuality to a Boulder breakfast audience with an anecdote about being called handsome by a gay man. "I like (rapper) Wyclef Jean and everybody thinks I'm very hip, but I am really a square, as my kids will tell you. I don't even get to watch television. I've heard the term (metrosexual), but I don't know what it means."
Yep, that's right...TOO. MUCH. INFORMATION. Is it really necessary to engage in this sort of pandering, to try and be all things to all people? How does this help define the type of President that Howard Dean plans to be? The short answer is that is does nothing to help define Dean, but it does play up his willingness to tell people what they want to hear. Is that what we really want in a President?
