Posted on 11/28/2004 2:26:14 AM PST by Liz
Except for sneering Michael Moore types, the new mantra of Democrats is learning how to see red — as in Republican red states. Problem is, nobody appears to want the key job of DNC chairman except those from super-blue states.
That's a quandary, since the DNC is the only national forum that can serve as the party's base for revival. President Bush is back in the White House by a solid margin and Dem numbers are shrinking in Congress.
One clue to the traumatized post-election Democratic mood is that those pushing New Yorker Leo Hindery Jr. — former YES Network chief — for DNC head honcho feel a need to insist that he's not too New Yorkish.
"When I hear Leo talk, I don't hear somebody that I suspect of being an East Coast snob," says Nebraskan-turned-New Yorker Bob Kerrey, the former Democratic senator and New School University president.
Abortion-rights activist Kate Michelman, also backing Hindery, insists, "The fact that he lives in NY does not mean he cannot appreciate the life of someone in Iowa."
The others clamoring to run the DNC are just as un-Iowa as Hindery — Howard (The Scream) Dean, controversial (and very NY) Clintonista Harold Ickes and New Democratic Network chief Simon Rosenberg, a native of Connecticut suburbs.
Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb and former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk — both African-Americans — are cited, but it's not clear they're interested. Both did well in red states, but only at the city level. Kirk lost Texas-wide for U.S. senator.
That's why the few red-state Dem stars have better things to do than replacing Terry McAuliffe (hand-picked by the Clintons) as DNC chief. Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack are all said to be mulling 2008 White House bids.
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A Dumbocrat more centrist than Kerry? This guy will have to be some kind of alien hybrid, manufactured out of spare parts. The Dims will have to call on Dr Frankenstein to perform the necessary surgery.
But they won't pick him because they've turned into a religious cult, and they'd rather make the ideologically pure choice than the pragmatic one that will help them win. The other day, I got an email petition from some idiots wanting Howard "YEEEEAAAGHH!" Dean to run the party. Brilliant. Take the guy who had all the PR, all the endorsements, all the momentum and all the money and couldn't win a single primary; the guy whose campaign was so poorly managed, he blew all his money on commercials in Iowa and had nothing left to mount a comeback with when he lost; and put that guy in charge of all the strategizing and budgeting of your campaigns nationwide.
And they think Bush voters are drooling morons.
They're all 'reds'.
Maybe they could get Dixie Pr!cks Natalie Maines from the very red state of TX to be DNC Chairman.
Dixie Pr!ck's a good nominee to be sure.....but maybe even better is Whoppi Goldmember. LOL.
There's some Dems out there on various state levels that could steer the party back in the right direction. But it's a 6-10 year project. Dems will lose again in the mid-terms and again in 08. Maybe by that point it will finally sink in that calling the majority of the voters uneducated ignorant bigots is a bad idea.
And didn't Beckel pay a prostitute with a check?
Oh wait, that was TV shlockmeister Jerry Pricker, the former Mayor (gag).
(Sniffle) Yeah, true. But we musn't forget that the Dumbos are really, really "tolerant and compassionate" (sob).
Keep in mind that Carville is so Sept 10.....a prehistoric type.
The Democratic Party is now so far outside the box that it will never find anyone to run...Maybe Fidel Castro....
Fidel would win the DNC post by acclamation.
Yes--he did.
The boyfriend of the prostitue waited in the car while she was having sex with Beckel. Bob's wife was out of town when he phoned the girl for sex from an ad he saw on the internet.
He wrote her a check for $600 (two hours work at $300 an hour), and the next morning he found a note on his car windshield asking for a large sum of money or he would be blackmailed.
Beckel called his attorney, and they sweated for a day over what to do. Finally, they decided to go to the police because there was no guarantee that even after he paid the hush money, the story would not wind up in the tabloids or on the internet.
What amazes me is that Beckel is still a Democrat shill. Two weeks ago he was on TV screaming at Ann Coulter. I thought "Why is he still around?"
Here is the Smoking Gun article about it:
They should try the Ragin' Cajun
Honest, I feel for the girl........two hours in the sack (or wherever) with Beckel has gotta be a nightmare.
Linda Round-stadt?
I'd like to nominate Maynard Jackson. He's dead you say. Well, what difference does that make when it comes to chairmand of the DNC. It would be an improvement.
Zell Milller had it right. The Democrats are a "national party no more."
It's too bad that Joe Lieberman is too laid back. The Democrats need a hawk as DNC Chairman, and Lieberman fits that bill. But, I don't think Lieberman is aggressive enough. I also think Donna Brazile would be a great choice. She is from Louisiana, comes from a military family. But, I think Donna is too smart to be roped into a losing action at the DNC. And....I think in some ways she is really a "Black" closet Republican. She'd make a great team with Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman at the RNC! She would have a golden opportunity to make postive, meaningful, permanent history in the party of Lincoln. She will never reach all that she can be in the confines of the current Democrat Party.
Beckel said no, he couldn't do that, but if she gave him a free BJ, he'd give her phone number to Bill Clinton.
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