Potential Democratic Candidate: "I am an Insurgent"

Right here in California. In an absolutely centrist and unbiased KPBS piece about a democractic convention here in San Diego.

Richardson: I am asking for your help. I am an insurgent. I am an underdog. And I need your help. And I can win California. I will not have all that money and all those advance people and all of that rock-star status. But I've got a heart.

Could it simply be poor word choice influenced by the constant media usage of the word? Sure... but only if the media depiction is one you associate with "underdogs" who deserve your help. This isn't even a freudian slip, where Richardson said one thing, but meant his mother.

The piece goes on to talk about how any number of young democrats could grow up to be president, like 19 year old Morgan Lucas, who, the article tells us, has been a committed democrat for 7 years. Yes, you read that right... since she was 12 she's been a self subscribed member of a political party. I only know one other political party with membership THAT young, and I think you know which one I'm talking about.