Dean Loses It

National Review Online ^ | Jan 20, 2004 | Byron York

[Snerfling]

Kerry?

Kerry as Pres, Edwards as VP. Probably the toughest matchup Rove was expecting. Everyone was torn between hoping for Dean and worrying that a significant part of the country was that irrational. Looks like the Dem machine really took back the party.

[cousair]

I've never seen anything like it...I've never seen anything like it...I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT IN MY LIFE!!!!

[Akira]

I haven't listened or viewed these yet, but...

Drudge has audio: http://www.drudgereport.com/dean.mp3

Fox has video: http://www.foxnews.com/access/video.html

[jwfiv]

Howie has a histrionic personality disorder...he's the kind of guy that laughs at the scary parts of movie, a nervous and telling laugh.

In the face of loss and grief, he's compelled to hide his true emotion by an exuberant display of it's opposite.

His cheerful and phony confidence last night only reveals how deeply crushed and emotionally wounded he is.

His remark a couple of weeks ago about the President having issues with his father, and being obsessed with re-election, smacks of classic, textbook projection.

I suspect he has his own issues with his own father, probably arising from emotional abandonment and the consequent drive to always prove himself special and worthy.

I should feel sorry for him, but somehow cannot, for his words and deeds have been so hurtful.

Maybe all the babies he aborted at Planned Parenthood haunt his dreams.

Who knows? I doubt he does, as people like him don't dare look into the Pandora's box of their psyche.

Personally, I've enjoyed his meltdown...it's been like watching a Scanners movie, and I've been waiting for his head to explode.

Boom.

[PMCarey]

"We're going to the Saar, and then we're going to the Rhineland, and then we're going to Austria, and then we're going to the Sudetenland, and then we're going to Czechoslovakia, and then we're going to Poland and we're going to take Poland!!! YEEEEARRRRRRGHHHHHHH!"

[Jhensy]

I wonder what ALgore and Ann Richards were thinking

Has there ever been anyone as knuckleheaded as Al? He jumps aboard just as the biggest political trainwreck in history is going off the rails. The same judgement that gives a global warming speech in record-cold NYC. Idiot!

[hispanarepublicana]

Schcary.

[lawgirl]

Then he let out a strange, extended, yelp that seemed to come from deep within him: "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"

This was hilarious! YYYAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! ROFL!!!!!! What a stooge. Hmm... actually on reflection it looked more like Hitler than one of the Stooges!

[Akira]

LOL! What a stark contrast to Bush's controlled demeanor.

[Zack Nguyen]

He has made anger a feature of his campaign, with the exception of a few days toward the end of the Iowa contest when he tried to adopt a more statesmanlike approach (a strategy he soon abandoned).

His supporters don't want statesmanship. They want rage.

[moondoggie]

Time to stick a fork in him

Don't forget that Bush finished third in Iowa, too. No doubt Dean is "unbalanced" and judging from the articles this morning about his hysterical performance last night, the press is going to do America a favor by making that "crazy" label stick.

[evets]

[Kevin Curry]

If he had been shouting in German, he would have sounded like Hitler.

I know I won't be popular for saying so, but I completely disagree.

Mean Dean's little pep rally was spontaneous, unrehearsed, and largely unintelligible. Hitler's performances could not be more different. They were carefully scripted and choreographed down to the last detail, rehearsed, and bone-chillingly focused in message. The only element common to Hitler's rallies and Dean's rally is their anger.

Dean likely believed his team was dispirited and needed to be be whipped up emotionally immediately. He thought it essential that they see him as a "winner" who had suffered nothing more than a minor setback. He has played football and my guess is he reverted to an emotional-coach-in-the-locker-room style because it is the only style he is familiar with for such situations.

I am not familiar with his various gubernatorial campaigns, but I would guess that in those races he never found himself in the same situation that he found himself and his supporters yesterday. If he had, he likely would have discovered long ago that a locker room rant is ill-suited to a gubernatorial or presidential campaigns where peole are scrutinising every word and gesture for signs of emotional instability.

Dean's performace over the past month has been one long concantenation of political pratfalls and whoopie cushions.

[StoneColdGOP]

Watching his speech on television was like watching one of those old 30's films of Hitler addressing the mindless masses.

The guy went absolutely nuts. I was half-expecting to watch someone shoot the poor SOB with a tranquilizer dart.

And then there was Kennedy at John Kerry's event, I thought the old drunkard was going to have a stroke!

[tiki]

I just heard it again and it reminded me of a clip that Rush played, years ago, of Ted Kennedy at a rally.

[Akira]

You're bringing too much thought and logic into the conversation. ;-)

[tiamat]

I have heard that before about Hitler, and I DO conced the point. Furthermore, I have read some of Hitler's stuff, and you are right, the guy could be eleoquent. He made the German people feel good and proud about the Reich. VERY persuasive man, was Hitler.

See, for me, the deal is, I don't speak German. I just hear the sound. So if I am listening to one of those old newsreels or a recording of a Hitler speech, , the sounds comes across not unlike Dean's rant last night.

That's more what I meant.

Tia

[finnman69]

Secret Audio of Dean Speech
"I am Deanholio! Do not make my bunghole angry. I need TeePee for my bunghole."

[jpl]

I was really hoping that Dean could pull it off, but this little roller coaster ride is going down like the Hindenburg.

Somehow though it's a little comforting to know that Iowa Democrats can recognize a whacko when they see one.

[DustyMoment]

I always figured that Dean wouldn't make it all the way to the convention, but I never thought he'd lose it in Iowa.

Traditionally, American voters don't care much for the kind of temper tantrum Dean gave after the results were in. Remember Muskie and his crying about media attacks on his wife? Dean will soon join THAT highly exclusive club of "never-was'". He has only himself to blame for his (lack of) political future.

I also am not surprised that Gephardt is dropping out. I never saw him as a very strong candidate and, apparently, neither did the Iowans.

With Gephardt and Mosely-Braun out of the race and Dean pretty much toast, it looks as though the race will come down to a contest between John "JFK" Kerry (I served in Viet Nam, ya know), John "the Breck Girl" Edwards and Joe "I should be the REAL VP" Lieberman. I think the rest of the field are non-contenders; they're just slow to get the hint.