Posted on 12/12/2004 11:04:12 PM PST by kattracks
Former presidential candidate Howard Dean yesterday made a national pitch to head the Democratic Party, saying he will create a 50-state strategy to win new voters.
"I really believe we have to stand up for being Democrats," Mr. Dean said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We have a message to sell. I frankly think it's a better message than the Republicans'; we've just got to figure out how to get it out there."[snip]
The former Vermont governor said the Democratic Party has to "look at what the Republicans do well" and establish a grass-roots base of office holders.
On Saturday, Mr. Dean told party leaders, "I want to do what the Republican National Committee does; they're better organized than we are."
All of the candidates addressed the Association of State Democratic Chairs on Saturday in Orlando, Fla., although Mr. Dean said yesterday he has not decided whether he will seek the vote in February to replace outgoing party chief Terry McAuliffe.
"I am going to run if I think that I can win, if I think they really want me," Mr. Dean said.
[snip]
Former Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, who served on the September 11 commission, said last week that Mr. Dean would do a good job as chairman but "he's going to have some 'splainin' to do, as Ricky Ricardo used to say."
"Which Howard Dean are we talking about?" Mr. Kerrey asked. "If we're talking about the Howard Dean who was governor of Vermont, I would say, fine. But if it's the presidential candidate Dean, I would say, probably, no."
The New Republic published an editorial opposing Mr. Dean, saying, "The liberal base is simply not large enough to win a national election."
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Oh please, let it be loose cannon wack job Dean, please, please, please,....
Did he say stay away from Gay's Guns's and God?
Good Luck Deanie Weenie.......
A 50-state strategy? "We're going to [state 1], we're going to [state 2], [state 3], [state 4], yeeeeeaaaarrggghhhh"
LOL! You have to be happy about the coming battle between the Deaniacs and the Clintonistas. It's so very entertaining watching these Rats try to get out of their maze!
Oh, oh, oh. My heart is beating like a rabbit's. Could there be anything so pleasurable as having Dean chair the DNC?
It's definitely worth waiting for! It's so fun to watch the Rats run around trying to figure out why America (especially the red states) dislikes them!
Those poor Democrats just can't come to terms with the fact that the problem with their party is the message itself. For example, the DUers are picking their little brains trying to figure out what went wrong and how to get their message across more effectively, just coming up with the dumbest ideas. Like on gun control, one DUmbass stated instead of emphasizing what we can't do with our firearms, they should emphasize instead on what they would permit us to use them for and which firearms they'd let us keep. Their heads are so far up their a$$es, they don't realize no matter how they restate their perverted message, Americans will still see it as the destructive ideology that it is.
Then when I trolled the site and recommended that it might be the party's very message that's the problem, they of course responded with all fury, limp wrists flailing in emasculated anger. If the Democrats wish to be relevant again, I think they'd better heed the advice of Zell Miller and seriously rethink their positions on key issues. No amount of public razzle dazzle and reorganizing their offices at grassroot levels will change the fact that America just doesn't like their message, what they stand for, and how they contemptuously view those who oppose them.
YEARGH!
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