Dean is Clearly Still Not Ready for Primetime

RealClearPolitics ^ | June 8, 2005 | Susan Estrich

[SteveMcKing]

"They all behave the same."

Orderly.

"They all look the same."

Groomed.

"It's pretty much a white Christian party."

Are you really a doctor?

[MikefromOhio]

hehe sure he is...

he should be on EVERY show

[mewzilla]

What he's doing is what he has become know for: shooting from the lip...

Gee, so's Hilliary. So why haven't her comments drawn the same amount of coverage?

Inquiring minds want to know...

[Coop]

Most Republicans are not coupon-clippers -- they go to work and earn a day's pay like the rest of us.

What does this mean? I earn a legitimate wage, and I clip coupons.

[anniegetyourgun]

Estrich knows "shooting from the lip." Come to think about it, I never see her in prime time anymore.

[NautiNurse]

Dean is doing a fine job.

[CasearianDaoist]

Dean is part of the program. Hillary will have him replaced and thereby "move the party toward the center."

It was all a placed bit of stagecraft from the very beginning.

[MinuteGal]

Thank heaven FR posters don't demand the "required picture" of Susan Ostrich.

Leni

[billorites]

[hershey]

Susan's desperately looking for approval and maybe to hook up with dem movers and shakers in time for the next election cycle. She has a tough road to hoe, what with the Kerry/dems exit poll numbers mess in the last election...which, in the half hour before it was shown to be completely bogus, she said angrily (on Fox), was HER idea, HER brainchild. That's two strikes: The Dukakis/tank photo op/campaign, which she managed, and those pesky exit polls which had Kerry in a landslide.

[LIConFem]

"Dean is doing a fine job."

I love Howard Dean!! I don't think the dems could have picked a better man to represent their party. Viva Dean!!

Hey Howard.... thank God you're not on my side!

[LIConFem]

"It was all a placed bit of stagecraft from the very beginning."

I think you're giving the dems much too much credit for brains here. Personally, I still think the dems are clueless as to why they keep losing elections.

[A message]

"there were more Democratic votes left on the table.

And they will stay there... in a drug induced fog.

[Brilliant]

"there were more Democratic votes left on the table. The bad news is that they still may be there, unless Democrats start doing what needs to be done. It isn't glamorous work. It doesn't make headlines, or primetime news. You don't need a big mouth or a high profile to do it. But if you do it right, you win..."

This is another way of saying "We've got to do a better job of stuffing the ballot box."

[pettifogger]

Most Republicans are not coupon-clippers -- they go to work and earn a day's pay like the rest of us.

What does this mean? I earn a legitimate wage, and I clip coupons.

I'm with you; I didn't get this. We earn an honest living AND clip coupons.

I especially like the ones for BJ's! And those home stores like BB&B and L-n-T.

[avital2]

"clip coupons" refers to when muni bonds were issued in certificate form with interest coupons at the bottom that one cut off (clipped) at the right time to send in to get your interest payment. muni bonds are tax free and sold in $5m increments, so those that own them are usually in high tax brackets - so the reference is not to clipping grocery coupons, but bond coupons!

[CasearianDaoist]

They almost won the last one. Judging by what is going on in the Senate, I think they may in fact never lost one.

I think you underestimate them.

As far as dean goes, note that the entire Elstablishment Left pull any serious candidate they might have had for this positions. What is the end result of all of this in the short term. Why it drives the lion's share of the money into Hillary's coffers; it shows just about everyone on the left who is really in charge.

Nothing could be more obvious.

[MinuteGal]

At least Martha Raye (The Mouth) looked pretty good when they groomed and brushed her.

No such hope for The Ostrich.

Leni

[oblomov]

"Coupon clipper" is a now-obscure reference to people who have sufficient assets to put the money in bonds and live off the interest payments. Bonds used to come with stubs at the end called "coupons" that the person would clip off and take to the bank to cash in.

Today, the "coupon" on a bond refers to the rate of interest paid on the market value of the bond.

If anyone is a coupon clipper, it's Dean. His father was a wealthy Wall Street player.