Dean is Clearly Still Not Ready for Primetime

RealClearPolitics ^ | June 8, 2005 | Susan Estrich

[anniegetyourgun]

Evidence that you've 'never made an honest living' in your life, you rascally Republican!

[Coop]

"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!

Aha, interesting. Always learning! Thank you.

[carumba]

Even more important, the Bush team, under the leadership of then-Rove deputy Ken Mehlman, was embarked on a sophisticated technological project that allowed it to communicate with voters in key states and key groups the same way Amazon does with regular purchasers: Understanding more than name, address and serial number, Amazon knows what I like, and what my family likes, and what other people like me like, so that when they write to me, they know how to sell to me. So did Bush.

Dems need mind control. Subliminal is not going to cut it. *Today is election day. Put down the remote and go to the polls. Vote a strait Democratic ticket.* Anything short of this and the unwashed masses will continue to be hypnotized by the siren song of the talk show hosts, the Internet sites, and the yearnings of their feeble minds. /sarcasm

[tx_eggman]

The good news for 2008 is that while Republicans squeezed out every one of their voters, there were more Democratic votes left on the table.

No, the good news for 2008, Susie, is that you're going to be marginalized even more and lose even worse than you did in 2004 ... oh, and you'll still be ugly beyond description.

[Coop]

But at least she has a soothing voice...

[Tempestuous]

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

I was gonna say "shooting from the ass"...but this works too.

[NRA1995]

Trouble in paradise?

[NautiNurse]

hehehe...Ken Mehlman on FNC chuckled and said, "A lot of people who attended my Bar Mitzvah will be surprised to hear that Republicans are just a bunch of white Christians."

[randita]

The good news for 2008 is that while Republicans squeezed out every one of their voters, there were more Democratic votes left on the table.

I just don't agree with this statement. Moveon.org mounted a humongous grassroots get out the vote effort. They had at least one person at every polling place in the country, it seemed.

Hillary will have a huge war chest and be able to forego federal funding. Other Democrats won't be able to. Hillary's going to be sitting on all the money, while Democrat Senatorial and Congressional candidates go begging.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Contrary to what some are saying former Vermont governor and recent failed Democrat presidential candidate Dr. Howard "Dr. Dememto" Dean is a perfect spokesman for the declining party.

He exactly reflects the "cornered rat syndrome" of a political party on the ropes.

In fact, some of the hatred some leading Democrats have for Dean is that while he is an avid spokesman who spews the vitriolic party line, he is not as liberal as the party he represents.

For example, when Dean was governor of Vermont he balanced the budget, was for capital punishment and was singled out by the National Rifle Association for his support of that Constitutional rights organization.

When a political party has reached the degree of failure the Democrat party has arrived at, Dean is the kind of people it attracts.

[demkicker]

I especially enjoyed watching him on the Today show this morning demonizing the Republican party again for being driving by "a christain agenda":)

[claudiustg]

Et tu, Susan?