LA Times:Dean to End Campaign, Stay in Race

Reuters via MyWay.com ^

[steveegg]

Howard Dean returned home to Burlington, Vermont, early on Wednesday carrying a decision to quit his presidential campaign but remain in the race for the nomination, the Los Angeles Times reported in Wednesday's editions.

"Though Dean is not going to formally drop out of the race, he is going to stop campaigning," a Dean aide told the newspaper.

"The move would allow his supporters to continue to vote for him in the upcoming primaries and have a say at the Democratic National Convention in July," The Times reported.

[steveegg]

Dunno the rules about using stuff that excerpts the LA Times; hence the excerpt of this Reuters/MyWay.com story.

For the record, President Bush, running unopposed in a state where there is no party registration, an open primary and the only partisan primary is the Presidential race (so there is no impediment to crossing over), drew 8,000 more votes than Dean.

[mewzilla]

So what do Howie and the media know about Ketchup Boy and the Breck Girl that the voters don't? Yet...

[OXENinFLA]

[mewzilla]

And this is the best the Dems can do....

Bwah hah hah hah hah.

[sarasota]

Why wouldn't he drop out and endorse someone? We'll find out at 1:00 Eastern today.

[TeleStraightShooter]

Dean oughta sue Kerry & the other (D)'s for why Joe Biden quit his bid for Prez in 1988..........

[mewzilla]

Because there are more shoes to drop? Well, here's hoping :)

Run, Howie, run!

[steveegg]

If you're looking for anything negative to come out of that Breck Girl story, you forget that we're talking about DemonRATs, where one can't be a serious contender without one of those stories floating around their head.

Here's hoping that Dr. Doom goes Green.

[mewzilla]

There are stories, then there are stories. Besides, if the stories are meaningless, why the lies and the spiking of the supposedly meaningless stories?

[steveegg]

Why wouldn't he drop out and endorse someone?

He wants to see who is going to give him Tommy Thompson's job? He's actually the stalking horse for a Hiliary-brokered convention? Dunno.

[goresalooza]

Nothing any of the dwarves do surprises me anymore. I don't understand why Dean doesn't buck the machine and protest against all of them. Dean GO GREEN! After all, the Clintons are the ones who brought him down, he's either too stupid or too gutless to fight back. I've yet to see any politician really stick it to their own party when they've been railroaded out. Kerry surely knows he has no chance of winning. GO BUSH!!!

[xzins]

What are the rules of the dem primaries and convention?

Can Dean give his delegates to Edwards at the convention and make Edwards the winner? Are they bound to go if Dean turns them over to a particular candidate?

The issue for them is to prevent Kerry from gaining a majority of the delegates.

If Kerry is down in delegate numbers, he'll have to negotiate, won't he?

[Semi Civil Servant]

"The move would allow his supporters to continue to vote for him in the upcoming primaries and have a say at the Democratic National Convention in July," The Times reported.

And after July? The only way his supporters could vote for Dean (if he's not the Dem nominee) is for him to be running as a third party candidate.

Hmm. Nader's saying he doesn't want to be the Green candidate, though he may still run as an independent. Dr. Governor would be great as the Green standard bearer; he's their kind of guy.

Dean has to be aware that the DNC power elite (Clintons & toadies) worked hard to arrange his crash landing. Here's hoping he bolts.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...yet to see any politician really stick it to their own party when they've been railroaded out...

Pat Bucannan and Ross Perot.

[Mo1]

I guess the talks with Edwards didn't go well?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49336-2004Feb17.html
The former Vermont governor sought out rival John Edwards for a private meeting Sunday night in Milwaukee. After what Democratic sources described as a friendly but inconclusive conversation, Dean said the two men should talk again today. The implication was that there could be ways for Dean to help a candidate he has said he prefers over Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.).

[steveegg]

I wouldn't touch the merits of that story with a 10-yard pole. I will say that Clinton proved that affairs can be turned into positives within the segment of the sheeple the RATs are angling for, and that rumors are just as good at generating that kind of buzz as the truth. Indeed, spiked rumors are even better because the RAT gets all the positives about having the rumor without any of the negatives regardless of whether it's true and no real effort given by sources that are difficult to impeach to finding out whether they're true.

[mewzilla]

Which story? The Polier story? If there aren't any merits, why did the Beeb doctor the story it had up a couple days ago, deleting the reference to Polier's parents being Pubbies and the quote about Kerry, lies, infidelity, and what wouldn't get into the Washington Post?

[sirshackleton]

I don't know what to think of this. To me, it's kind of a sour grapes move...Dean is pretty much done, and I guess he figures he's wasting his breath, but I think he probably knows he'll miss the spotlight...at least this keeps his name in the paper in some form with less effort.

Still, I think there are a lot of Deaniacs out there who are so smitten with this guy that as long as there is a box next to his name, they'll check it. While Dean going Green is the best way to divide the Dems, this might help solidify a Nader-like 4% or 5% contingent for November. Some folks will have invested so much in Dean they wouldn't fathom the possibility of voting for the nominee. You gotta if all the Move-or-Ons, who gave this guy a "primary" win, will be able to resist the temptation to pull the lever for Howie in the remaining primaries and throw Kerry's appearance of electibility into doubt....

[steveegg]

Damn good questions. Wish I had better answers than "dunno".

[TheBigB]

I am suspending my active pursuit of Jaime Pressly. However, I am keeping myself available to her if she so wishes. *sigh*