Posted on 12/27/2003 11:00:26 PM PST by 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.
we don't care if it comes from Al Gore or Al Capone, or Aljazeera for that matter.
Or Buddist Monks, or the Communist Chinese, etc...
Me too. I'm loving it. Especially when folks like Russert know Dean and the others are mincemeat, but can't bring himself to "pound" them.
Howard the Coward's foreign policy experience is pretty much confined to having had breakfast once at the International House of Pancakes. This pacifistic, leftist screwball is toast.
Not only did John F'n Kerry expose Howard Dean for the left wing wacko he is, but he also exposed himself as the flip flopping hypocrite he is as well. IMHO the bloodbath will only get worse in the months to come :-)
Beautiful.
lol! I'll have to remember that one.
Giggling uncontrollably. LOL! I'm going to remember that one!
Look at Ex Mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, He has already said he will vote for Bush and he is not alone. I believe if nothing major happens to change the current political climate between now and next November, the 9 democrats who want George W. Bush's job will win New York, California, Pennsylvania and quite possibly every state in the Union, including Dean's home State of New Hampshire.
The polling numbers in a match up between Howard Dean and George W. Bush shows George W. Bush winning every state and by huge numbers. Granted, those numbers could change when the field is narrowed, but I can't help to wonder how in the hell will Howard Dean be able to justify his position on this war and his many flip flops on the issues. If we think Al Gore looked bad during the 2000 debates, wait until Howard Dean tries to defend his love affair with the U.N. and how he would've never go to war without prior permission from the U.N.
Howard Dean is a flake and he makes Rob Reiner look like a right wing extremest
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