[CHARLITE]

"On Monday it was announced that three high-profile fundraising officials were leaving Dean in the lurch....Siegel was embarrassed after organizing a major donor event in Manhattan earlier this year for Dean. But the response rate for the event was less than 30 percent, and the event was moved from the Jacob Javits Center to a more intimate hotel ballroom."

[bubman]

I am coming to the conclusion that mr Dean is Rove plant! There is no other explanation. Or maybe he is positioning himself so far to the left that it would make Hillary a moderate by comparison. Given that the Rats are in a state of civil war between the Clinton camp and the Kennedy's (who despise Dean!) it is possible that Dean is a Clinton operative since MCauliffe left (and he was a Clinton boy as well!)

[Soul Seeker]

The money is being moved to 527's. The MSM will carry the rest of the load. Howie is there to keep the whackos entertained. Fundraising is not really his job anymore.

The one flaw is that it is the role of the Chairman to recruit people to the party, not merely fundraise. In that respect they are in trouble. Dean cannot recruit normal people needed to win elections.

[JerseyHighlander]

CFR has rfactionalized the Democrat coalition so badly they have no choice but to repeal it. They are trapped in their own social constructs that allow them no manueverability except to push further ahead in restricting 527 and PAC activities.

[clearlight]

Dean represents the true spirit of today's Democratic party-- shrill,ignorant, mean, and radically left wing. Don't know how this guy managaged to get the job, but I'm glad he did. He tells people more about the real Democrat agenda than the party's faux moderates ever will.

[Reactionary]

I don't buy this notion that the party is "distancing itself from Dean." Dean's rhetoric is perfectly in line with the rest of the party; the only thing he's able to do that they are not, is to actually say what everyone else would like to say.

No. Dean says what every Democrat would like to say. And there's no way for the party to mobilize its base without a daily dose of moonbat rhetoric.

[cricket]

Am surprised the head of the DNC needs an invite to a Demrat gala; but then. . .if 'impartiality' is required; then he never should have assumed he would/shoul be included - if he ever did, of course.

As for Dean, the 'shot-in -the-foot' scream continues. . .

[Billthedrill]

My guess is that the folks who intend to be around in 2008 are preparing for Hillary's push and those that aren't - hint, Howie, that's you, boy - are being treated as if they had a contagious disease. That would imply that the DNC leadership has looked at their chances of going majority in either house of Congress in 2006 and decided that it's a better bet to opt for the big enchilada in 2008.

Stick with me on this one - she has the executive for four years and most of the newspapers in the country screaming "obstructionism!" every time the Republican majority tries to stop her programs, a major push in 2010 for a Dem majority in both houses and another one in 2012 for her second term.

It may not sound like much of a plan for those convinced that she's unelectable, but I'm not sure about that at all - I think she's eminently electable. And another Clinton presidency with a majority of Dems in both houses would wreck this country for decades and possibly for good.