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Dean needed two more weeks for his comeback
U.S. News- Washington Whispers ^
| 04/26/04
| Paul Bedard
Posted on 04/18/2004 4:51:12 PM PDT by Pokey78
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posted on
04/18/2004 4:51:13 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
$100,000. I'm roaring with laughter. Bush or Cheney could whistle and raise that much and more.
To: Pokey78
$100,000. I'm roaring with laughter. Bush or Cheney could whistle and raise that much and more.
To: Pokey78
$100,000. I'm roaring with laughter. Bush or Cheney could whistle and raise that much and more.
To: Pokey78
"If we could have had two more weeks," says one... Like I told my wife on our wedding night.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:00:58 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Pokey78
Little did Dean know, the dems were never ever going to allow him to win a single primary.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:02:27 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: Pokey78
"and now some of Howard Dean's key strategists think they know why he fizzled after his dismal Iowa showing." And they would be wrong.
What no Deaniac will ever admit to is the reality that Dean's campaign was doomed to fail before it began. No candidate whose relevant experience can be characterized as having the National Security experience of a Dog Catcher from Danby-Four-Corners, the economic know-how of a quarry hand from Barre, and the Foreign Policy experience of a Carney Barker at the Tunbridge Fair is going to last very long in a post 9/11 presidential campaign.
Once the public scratched below the surface to see what Dean was bringing to the table, it was inevitable that they would find him lacking. Even Democrats.....
To: Pokey78
The 'Toons pulled Howie's license to shill, he was their useful idiot.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:12:28 PM PDT
by
VRWC For Truth
(3% votes Nader vs 1% purity on the right. Purity is the losing strategy right from the get-go.)
To: Pokey78
yeah, yeah... just one more year, one more blahblahblah ... he's a loser just like his kerry
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:16:34 PM PDT
by
InvisibleChurch
(I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it)
To: Pokey78
Or it could be because their man was a raving lunatic
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:19:25 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Mahmoud Zahar, step right up! You're the next contestant on "Who wants to field test a Hellfire?")
To: Pokey78
That they would say, in effect, Dean would be the "Clinton factor" this election proves the vote of no confidence in Mr. Facing Both Ways Kerry.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:21:54 PM PDT
by
KStorm
To: longshadow
Dean couldn't win, but if he came back to cut enough liberal support from Kerry, he could have kept the race alive and given someone like Edwards a chance. Kerry was exceptionally lucky with the timing of the primaries. Iowa and New Hampshire were quite a one-two punch. If Kerry had been in the public eye a little longer, voters would have gotten disillusioned with him. It's no reflection on Dean's worthiness, though, just an indication that the longer and closer voters look at Kerry, the less there is to be enthusiastic or positive about.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:33:17 PM PDT
by
x
To: Pokey78
I can't believe how stupid the democrats are....stupid, or willfully blind and silent out of cowardice, as to why Dean went down when he did. Stupid, blind, or obstinately refusing to admit the truth.
That scream speech was good, clean political fun for the roomful of Deaniacs. Within 24 hours, Mira Liasson told FOXNews she was in the hall, and it was totally different than it looked on tv. According to her, it wasn't over the top at all, the 300 + mostly college kids ate it up. And if you remember the tape, so did Senator Harkin. He was standing right in back of Dean, clapping, laughing, having a great time helping Dean pump up the supporters.
Think about it. If Senator Harkin had gone on tv to defend Dean, he could have shut down the Destroy Dean Machine, he could have done it before it even got revved up good. Just think how powerful Harkin is. If Harkin had gone on Chris Mathews, written an editorial in the New York Times, explained the event, and defended his candidate, Dean might have easily weathered what should have been a one week story.
Oh, Dean was doomed anyway, but his "irrationally exhuberant" antics just speeded up the process....thanks to Senator Backstabbing Harkin.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:35:17 PM PDT
by
YaYa123
(@Harkin = Human Debris.com)
To: Pokey78
Dean served his purpose, which was to make Kerry look more "moderate."
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:35:28 PM PDT
by
Guillermo
("Oh yeah? Well if you do it again, I'm gonna have only one word for you: 'Outta here.'" - Paul Sr.)
To: Pokey78
I thought Dean was still in debt ? wouldn't it better serve him to "sell" the list ?
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:45:38 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(is it mogadishu yet ?)
To: Pokey78
"If we could have had two more weeks," says one, "we would have pulled it out." And Dean thinks, 'Thanks a lot McAwful!', every night when he's sticking pins in his Terry McAwful voodoo doll.
To: Pokey78
Huh. Dean's no Clinton. 2 weeks would not have helped.
Personally I think Dean started irreversible decline when Natl Review put him on the cover. "Please nominate this man."
To: YaYa123
And I bet there've been many days since Iowa, when Democrats would have been delighted to ditch Kerry for Dean.
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posted on
04/18/2004 6:03:48 PM PDT
by
YaYa123
(@Gaffes, Blunders, Lies and Botox = Buyers' Remorse.com)
To: Pokey78
Dean was a loose cannon. He was the Clown Prince of the Democrat Party, same as Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton. Their only function was to generate hype and press. Without them, things would have been even more boring than the Kerry candidacy.
What made Dean's downfall even more spectacular was the hot-and-heavy endorsements from the Sore Loser Brigade (Al Gore, et al) that simply came too soon in his bid for the candidacy. He basically shot his wad all at once and had nothing left after that. Then the French poodle waltzed in. End of story.
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posted on
04/18/2004 6:22:19 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Leftists claim Bush is a terrorist. So why aren't they trying to appease him?)
To: Pokey78
Hell's bells....fella
You must be using one of them calendars from Canaduh......
one day is like a thousand years.........BULL
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posted on
04/18/2004 6:49:59 PM PDT
by
pointsal
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