I'm also totally convinced that he speaks for their true, deeply held feelings.
And I like it. Keep Dean!
Posted on 06/10/2005 7:32:42 PM PDT by CHARLITE
We are, I fear, in the last days of Howard Dean's tenure as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It was too good to last.
Party chairmen are supposed to raise money and keep their mouths shut. Dean has been failing on both counts.
Through April 30th this year, the Democrats had raised only $20.9 million, compared to $44.7 million for the Republicans.
Dean was on a West Coast fund-raising swing last week. Turnout in Seattle and San Francisco, hotbeds of liberalism both, was less than the DNC expected.
"There is an increasing whiff of desperation permeating the finance side of the DNC, what with Dean apparently feeling like the nerd at a fraternity rush party scooted off to a room to hang with the foreign kid and the nose picker, and the big-time DNC fund-raisers jumping ship like rats sensing something is amiss," snarked the American Spectator's Prowler.
Democrats who hold elective office have tried to put distance between themselves and Dean's comments.
"Dean disappoints Democrats at both ends of spectrum," wrote the Baltimore Sun's Jules Witcover, who normally would rather undergo a deep root canal without anesthesia than criticize a Democrat.
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Every time I think of Dean and the reaction of the democrats I get an old Police tune running thru my head.
Don't stand
Don't stand so close to me.
Dean will be at the head of the DNC for a while. He is there to make Hillary, Kerry, Kennedy, and the other liberal wackos seem moderate and sane.
I think he is also there to appease the moveon.org people.
rush limbaugh keeps saying that john dean is saying what most democrats believe.
I couldn't stop laughing when i first heard Dean had become Chairman of DNC. I can't see how any american in their right mind could be in the 'rats party. I guess i just answered my own question, they aren't in their right minds.
He is, Soros was the one that got him the DNCC gig....
All part of the plan...
Money that would have gone to the DNC now goes directly to certain candidates.
Dean is the scapegoat, to twist slowly in the wind, while certain Dems make themselves look moderate by criticizing Extreme Dean.
And it distracts us from what the newly "moderate" Dems are saying and doing.
All good things do come to an end. I fear Dean is seeing his last days. Who will replace him?
"Does anyone in America doubt that Kerry has a far higher IQ than Bush?" former New York Times editor Howell Raines asked rhetorically in an op-ed in August of last year. "I'm sure the candidates' SATs and college transcripts would put Kerry far ahead."
Actually, Howell, they don't. Kerry's grades at Yale were made public last week as a by-product of the modified limited hangout of his Navy records. Kerry's grades were lousy, slightly lower than those of Bush.
In this instance, as in so many others, liberal assumptions of superiority are not supported by fact. If you spend as much time as liberals do looking down your noses at people who disagree with you, it's hard to see the road ahead. The only cure for this myopia is a long, long time in the political wilderness.
I'm also totally convinced that he speaks for their true, deeply held feelings.
And I like it. Keep Dean!
Bring back the scream, Howie! We want to hear the scream again! We love the scream!
I think of Bob Dylan's "Idiot Wind".
I am kind of split on the Dean thing---
Up until a few days ago, I was all for keeping Dean, because he makes Republicans look like the adults, and the dems look like the kids...BUT,
Then I started thinking like a Clinton---I am afraid that the only reason that Hillary is allowing Dean to stay as DNC Chairman, is because HE is getting all of the heat and negative attention....which takes the focus off of her faults, and lets her go around giving speeches for $250,000, and lets Dean take the heat for not getting more campaign finances...
If it weren't for Dean, her negatives, and her lack of attention to the people of New York's business in the Senate, would be more talked about and written about...he is her "cover"...
Tell me if I am being goofy!
the Democrats had raised only $20.9 million, compared to $44.7 million for the Republicans.
Perhaps it is not about money, but brains and morality - RINO's excluded.
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