REPUBLICANS NOMINATE HOWARD DEAN

RSN ^ | 12/22/03

[South40]

Democrat frontrunner Howard Dean has been unofficially nominated as that party's 2004 presidential candidate by a special preliminary strategy session of the Republican National Convention.

"Pleeeeeeeeease nominate Dean, pretty pretty pretty pleeeeeease, with lots of sugar on top!" read an official press release posted at the Republican National Committee's website last night.

Conservative patriarch William F. Buckley, reached at his National Review offices, leaned way, way back in his chair, put the tip of his eyeglasses to his mouth, and said, "The gravaman of our response to the exigency in which we find ourselves runs thus: we dare you. We double dog dare you, dear sirs. We double-triple-quadruple blind three-legged dog dare you, with all due apologies for the colloquialisms, to put forward Mr. Dr. Governor Howard Dean McGovern as your esteemed candidate for president." (RealStory @ nationalreview.com)

The Dean campaign, which had earlier accepted an endorsement from Al Gore, gladly accepted the RNC's support.

Dean spokesman and campaign manager Joe "Trippy Joe" Trippi accepted that support in an appearance Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert.

"It's cool with us, man," Trippi told Russert. "We want two million people to give us a hundred bucks each, and we don't care if it comes from Al Gore or Al Capone, or Aljazeera for that matter. (RealStory @ deanforamerica.com)

"We want a new president, and a new political system," Trippy Joe continued. "We don't need corrupt money from corporations and unions. We're using the Internet to get it directly from the people."

Dean has been on the defensive ever since he established himself as the frontrunner and immediately came under withering fire from his fellow Democrats, who want to paint him as too liberal and idealistic to be nominated.

At a recent rehearsal for a "Hair"-inspired extravaganza planned for the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Dean responded to a flurry of criticism in characteristic 'shoot from the lip' style.

Questioned over his commitment to national security and his opposition to the war in Iraq, Dean responded firmly, "As president, I would pledge to do everything in my power to protect the American people. Just as long as the UN gives me permission."

Concerning his downplaying of the capture of Saddam Hussein, Dean repeated, "I don't see how the demise of an evil maniacal multibillionaire dictator bent on our destruction makes us one bit safer."

And cornered over a series of gaffes related to his and his party's foreign relations acumen, Dean insisted, "It is because of the foreign policy strength of Democrats like me that to this day the USSR does not dominate Prussia."

In hopes of soliciting enough anonymous $100 campaign contributions to ensure the nomination of Dean, the Republican National Committee will hold a benefit auction this New Year's Eve that includes some novel pledges by some very prominent conservatives.

[sweetliberty]

Dean is road kill. What the democRATs leave of him, the republicans will finish off.

[MJY1288]

I hope we gain seats in the Senate and House, but I want GWB to curb the expansion of the federal Government in his second term. So I hope Tom Delay and Bill Frist quit the triangulation strategy and get back to shrinking the size of Government. George W. Bush has earned my vote, but I would be much happier if he slashed a few of these useless bureaucracies in his second term. If he does, He will go down as one of the best ever to hold the office he does.

[MattAMiller]

"The gravaman of our response to the exigency in which we find ourselves runs thus: we dare you. We double dog dare you, dear sirs..."

Indescribably funny.

[onyx]

I agree.

I also want to see a flat tax or a national sales tax; a privatization of SS to some degree; and the grants to the Arts and a whole lot of others axed.

[MJY1288]

Start sending your letters now! because after George W. Bush wins in 2004, Karl Rove will focus on GWB's legacy instead of his reelection. With a strong majority in Congress and a shift in strategy, we could see some real progress in reversing 40 years of liberal control. The only 2000 campaign promise George W. Bush has not fulfilled is his promise to reduce the size of Government, and we need to remind him of this after his landslide win in 2004

[cajungirl]

I think we need to be more sneaky about our desire to get Dean. Plus, where did "double dog dare" come from, we used the term as kids fifty years ago and I have been wondering ever since. What is this "double dog dare",,I can't figure out what double dog has to do with daring. Inquiring minds wanta know and I will double dog dare everyone that somewhere lurking is a Freeper who knows.

[Qwinn]

"William F. Buckley, reached at his National Review offices, leaned way, way back in his chair, put the tip of his eyeglasses to his mouth, and said, "The gravaman of our response to the exigency in which we find ourselves runs thus: we dare you. We double dog dare you, dear sirs. We double-triple-quadruple blind three-legged dog dare you, with all due apologies for the colloquialisms, to put forward Mr. Dr. Governor Howard Dean McGovern as your esteemed candidate for president."

I bust a gut over this. Literally laughing out loud. This was priceless. I bet WFB himself would be cracking up and agreeing.

Qwinn

[Miss Marple]

I got curious and looked it up on Google. Not much information, except that it may be derived from "I black dog dare you." In thieves' cant, a black dog is a bad shilling.

Not much explanation about it. Funny how phrases in childhood stay about the same...it is because they are passed from sibling to friend and back, rather than through generations.

[cajungirl]

You beat me to the google!! I spend alot of time googling things. The other expression I have been meaning to google is Peckerwood. My dad called people peckerwoods. Now I know it comes from woodpecker, but why? Were woodpeckers bad or something. And why reverse it? Interesting.

[cajungirl]

Another thing. We used to say double dog dare you a dead man's eye,,followed by what we were daring. Having a childhood de ja vu!

[Miss Marple]

You know, there is another thing that is escalated like the dare:

Please.
Pretty please.
Pretty please with sugar on top.

[cajungirl]

Right,,I am escalating into childhood as we post.

[Paul_B]

This is all about setting the stage for 08. The Clintons have done everything they can to spoil the waters this time around. A decimated Party will have no choice but to embrace her next time. And the Pubs won't have an incumbant to run.

[texasflower]

Welcome!!!!!

[texasflower]

Based on the tone of some of Kondracke's remarks today, I completely agree with you that he will vote for Bush.

[KDD]

Let me tell you my friend, I have several friends who consider themselves as life long democrats who see George W. Bush as their choice in 2004.

Don't doubt that for a second. And it's those democrat votes that Bush will need to make up for the loss of conservative voters who feel betrayed by his administration and who will probably stay home on election day.

[Wolverine]

 

Peckerwood Concept

[cajungirl]

Loved the peckerwood site!! Thanks!!