Reply #14: Eh, don't be so sure this is a BAD thing.

[MADem]

Sounds like nudge, nudge, wink wink to me.

"Psssst....all you GOP types who aren't worried about Jesus, could give a shit about war, and are just worried about YOUR MONEY...I'm the LIBERAL guy for you, in that I will be liberal in ensuring that you aren't overtaxed, you keep your capital gains, and the rich get rich, and the poor get poorer...."

It's a way of assuring the non-fundy, non-warmonging, simply greedy GOP types that he'll not be to the Right of Attila the Hun. He'll keep that war going to keep those corporate stockholders happy, he'll keep our military-industrial complex humming,

Porgie Bush played the same "I'm an Idiot" self-deprecating game, and it didn't hurt him.