Will Dean Go Solo?

Jan/22/04 | Jveritas

[jveritas]

He has a lot of money, he has a lot of organization, and he has a lot of fanatics “Bush haters” followers a.k.a. “Deaniacs”. Despite all this, Howard Dean is fighting for his life to stay in the race. If this trend of him falling down continues, he may find out after February 3rd primaries that it is impossible for him to be the nominee. If he reaches this desperate stage, he will have three choices. One choice is to continue the race despite all the disasters and hoping for the best. Another choice is to withdraw from the race and gracefully supports the Democratic Party nominee. A third choice is to withdraw from the primaries, saves his tens of millions of dollars that he assembled from contributions, and runs as a third party candidate. He will justify his decision to go as an independent by blaming the Democratic Party establishment for his demise and that the establishment Democrats (Clintonites) have been conspiring against him from the beginning and working very hard to eliminate him. He will also accuse them that they are faithful servant to President Bush and that they are not doing the will of the people. The question is will Howard Dean have any supporters left to fuel his third party presidential campaign?

He still have a lot of “Bush Haters” left wing supporters who are willing to go with him till the end. He will sell these crowds all the anger, hate, and rhetoric that they lust for. He will promise them all type of socialistic programs, social liberalism, and Internationalism. He will wage class warfare, attacks the rich people and threatens to tax them to death. He will talk proudly about how he signed gay civil unions law when he was governor of Vermont and that he will fight very hard to make gay marriage and gay civil union a federal law. He will promise them that he will reverse the late term abortion ban law and push for another law that will allow minors to have abortion without parents notifications. He will tell his leftist crowds that under him America will never go to war without the permission of the U.N. and the international community. He will tell them that America military power should not be the predominant one in the world. He will tell them everything they want to hear about why to hate President Bush. And these crowds will keep pouring money in his campaign because they are blinded by hate toward President Bush, toward our American traditional values, toward our free market society, toward our military, toward our great success, and toward our us being the only super power in the world. They will do all this despite the fact that their support of a third party Howard Dean will definitely mean re-electing President Bush, the man that they hate the most.

So the question remains, if Dean loses the Democratic party nomination will he go solo? Time will tell, and this time is coming soon.

[Iron Eagle]

"Will Dean go solo"

no.

[Diogenesis]

YES

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The "Dean goes nuts" audio @MTV

[Tempest]

I could only hope for the 3rd option. But I doubt it.

[cripplecreek]

lets just hope he does. somebody needs to set up a website dedicated to drafting him for a 3rd party.

[Callahan]

A fella can dream....

[AmishDude]

Ditto. He won't. But if Dean doesn't get the nomination, Nader might run as an independent (he has announced he's not going Green for sure, but hasn't ruled out a run) or the Green party might find another celebrity candidate.

[Welsh Rabbit]

C'mon Howie, you owe it to your loyal supporters; go third party!

[MEG33]

Right,he wan't bolt the party,though.

[MEG33]

won't!

[COBOL2Java]

I think Mad How has a bright future in Mexican Professional Wrestling! Let's get him the mask and gold lame cape right now!

[plain talk]

Nader / Dean. Dean would make a great submissive and supportive running mate! And he'd certainly be entertaining at funerals.

[RWR8189]

RUN Howard RUN!!!

[Howie66]

Don't go away mad, Howard........

[MEG33]

Howard was entertaining and Clark amazes me with his arrogant insanity...The dems will deserve having to listen to Kerry drone on and on in his mourning voice and with his Lurch looks.

[Tijeras_Slim]

"Will Dean go solo"

Napoleon or Han?

[luvbach1]

The beaming faces of Harkin and others behind Dean, and their enthusiatic applause, plus the frenzied roar of approval from his audience, indicated to me that they were eating up the angry (almost said mad) doctor's over-the-top performance.

[Rome2000]

He can start the "MANIAC" Party.

[Poundstone]

I'm quite convinced Dean will not attempt an independent or third-party run at the White House, for the same reason Nader will not: Democrats and leftists are running scared this year. Unlike in 2000, this year they realize they DON'T have a very strong shot at winning in November; they realize Bush has many strengths, mainly the strong national approval of his handling of the war on terrorism. So, the fixation on winning the White House is more prevalent among Democratic notables than was the case four years ago, when the country seemed fat, dumb, and happy, and it was thought safer to take a shot or two at Gore and the mainstream Democrats, because they just KNEW Gore would win anyway. That's no longer the case.

Remember: despite the hysterics sometimes posted here by Freepers joyous over their belief that Dean is "nuts," he ISN'T nuts. He's very smart. He's a committed Democrat, not a third-party nut case. And he'll do his best to help whoever the ultimate nominee turns out to be. Fasten your seat belt and prepare for a dirty, brusing campaign this fall.

[motherof 3]

Oh, I wish he would. He has the ego to think he can.