Posted on 04/09/2008 9:15:15 AM PDT by seanmerc
To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Luis Miranda of Democratic National Committee, +1-202-863-8148
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean highlighted the reasons John McCain is not a strong candidate in interviews with George Stephanopolous on ABC's This Week and Bob Schieffer on CBS's Face the Nation this morning. Dean also discussed the Democratic Party's "extraordinary candidates" and delegate selection process.
On John McCain
"I don't think Senator McCain would be a good president either in terms of defense or certainly in terms of national policy where he's deeply out of touch with almost everything that Americans believe. We need to change this country. The country wants to be changed." [ABC This Week, 4/6/08]
"We're going to beat Senator McCain. He's not a strong candidate. He's wrong on Iraq, he's wrong on health care, he's wrong on home mortgages. He's wrong on almost everything that the American people want to do." [ABC This Week, 4/6/08]
"This is a race about the change in our country. Look John McCain wants to take the country essentially in the same direction that George Bush has taken it. I don't think that's what most Americans want." [CBS Face the Nation, 4/6/08]
"Look, John McCain is wrong on Iraq, wrong on the economy and wrong on health care. Those are the three biggest issues that the American people are voting on. At least he's wrong compared to what they believe should happen. And so he is not a strong candidate. And people also believe he's a flip flopper, which he is. So the question is, can we make sure that we do head in the new direction that 81% of the American people want us to head in, and I think we can if we are united." [CBS Face the Nation, 4/6/08]
On the Democratic Race
"This is about our country, George. At the end of the day it's not about these two extraordinary candidates that we have running for president. We have to win the election... Either of these candidates would be terrific." [ABC This Week, 4/6/08]
"The superdelegates get elected by the same people who elect the pledged delegates...we have about 800 unpledged delegates, and about 460 of them have already said who they're gonna be for, so if the other 340 would say who they're going to be for then we'd be all set. That's been going on, nobody has protested that so far. So I think that should continue to go on, people should continue to say who they're for and the process should move forward. But the most important people of all are the voters. We've got 10 states left to go, nine states plus Puerto Rico left to go, and I think the voters ought to have their say." [ABC This Week, 4/6/08]
"Here we are having both our candidates I think this weekend were in Montana. They've been in North Dakota. People haven't campaigned in states like that for the presidency in years. So every time you have a big contest for example in a place like Pennsylvania we haven't had a contest there for years and years. Now we know everything there is to know about Pennsylvania. We know who all those 150,000 new voters are that are registered. So there's a lot of good things that are happening because of this. And People are really excited about it because they know it's going to change the country." [CBS Face the Nation, 4/6/08]
"...Which points out something. Here we are fussing and fuming about all the stuff that's on the cable shows. Let's look at this campaign, George. Every single state will have had a campaign, a vigorous campaign with presidential candidates in. Candidates are going to North Dakota and Montana. Never mind just New York and California. We're going to be in great shape. I know the higher echelons of the Democratic Party are wringing their hands over this. The fact of the matter is we're having record turnouts everywhere. We get to run an election in Pennsylvania four or five months before the big election. We haven't done that in years. I think this is actually going to make it easier for to us win as long as we keep the party together." [ABC This Week, 4/6/08]
On Florida and Michigan
"My problem is we want to honor the states and the people of Michigan and Florida who did come out and voted in flawed elections. But we also want to make clear that there has to be an orderly process in the Democratic primary that everyone has to respect. Michigan and Florida voted for those things. So we want to seat a delegation from Florida, we want to seat a delegation from Michigan." [ABC This Week, 4/6/08]
"The voters in Michigan and Florida are important to us. I think the Michigan delegation and the Florida delegation have been very constructive in the last couple of weeks. We've met, we've discussed this by phone, and we're both I think committed to making sure this works in some way." [CBS Face the Nation, 4/6/08]
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If the MSM played this election straight down the middle and actually reported on the candidates, McCain would carry forty states.
The biggest single advantage the Dems have is that the media cheers for them.
The MSM is STILL claiming Kerry was “swiftboated” without ever having looked into the charges or interviewed any of the men he served with.
That’s the state of the media today.
That doesn’t speak well of Howie, now, does it?
Not being able to vote for Obama or Clinton because they are so much worse is the only thing John M has going for him IMO.
Howard Brush Dean III, child of privilege, Birkenstock doc, and beneficiary of some $3.8 million in trust funds, equities and financial instruments, is the epitome of the “limousine liberal”. Except that he eschews the limosines, and lives in the apparent “genteel poverty” of a country doctor persona. This, then, makes him a “man of the people”, and as such, gives him a patina of being a populist.
Young Ho-Ho Dean was on schedule to become a stockbroker himself, but apparently he had some daddy issues, and left the business to pursue medical training and ski trips. Unable to get a residency in New York City, he accepted one in Vermont, and established his credentials there. Once he had his practice established (with Dr. Judith Steinberg), he found his afternoons to be at loose ends. He dabbled in politics, taking on the job of lieutenant governor for a couple years, until the governor at the time had the bad judgment to die in office, and Dr. Dean assumed the duties. He was elected in his own right in the next election, and the honorable post of governor became a long-held suzerainty, at least until the job got boring. Dean jumped all over the political spectrum while in elective office, at times seeming to be a law-and-order martinet, and other times taking the most outrageously radical of proposals and making it his own.
The man has a whim of iron. And the logical consistency of trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.
"I respect Mr. Dean and would only say I try my best to be a good candidate. Mr. Dean is a man of integrity and is well qualified himself to be president. I would urge so called "conservatives" to turn down the hate they spew at great Americans like Mr. Dean so we can all work together for the good of this nation."
/s
Whats sad is I had to add the /s (sarcasm) tag because I was afraid people would believe McCain would have actually said that. Sigh.
“I don’t think Senator McCain would be a good president either in terms of defense or certainly in terms of national policy where he’s deeply out of touch with almost everything that
Americans believe.”
No, that’d be you, Deanie.
The media just spent 8 years telling everyone what a great guy John McCain was. Now they are going to flip and say he’s a monster? I know sheeple are foolish, especially Democrat sheeple but I think the media is going to have a hard time selling this flip. In the end they’ll have to resort to turning McCain into an angry Grandpa Simpson with his finger “on the button”. As he always does, I’m sure John McCain will help the media realize their dreams. ;-)
Howard Dean is and has always been the gift that keeps on giving.
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear he was a Rove plant at the DNC. Then, again, maybe I DON’T know better ;)
LOL...could happen.
Classic!
“This is a race about the change in our country.” You bet it is......a change away from the Clintons.
This has been part of the MSM’s collective plans for years...use McCain to bash Republicans, pump him up, deliver the nomination to him, alienate the conservative base, then turn on McCain.
The Liberal Democrat gets elected.
“John McCain Not a Strong Candidate” and he will kick barack mcgovern’s ash, so your point is?
Hey, when he's right, he's right. There are no strong candidates this year.
Why is that?
There have been occasions in the past where Democrats have been caught saying that the media was worth fifteen points to them every election. They did nothing but report negatives and scandals and gloom and doom and question the motives and intelligence of Reagan and the first Bush. They put a virtual headlock on the 1992 election. No one was told that Perot was a stalking horse for Clinton. Newsweek had an artist draw a portrait of Clinton being sworn in as president and they ran it in the spring. I was a subscriber then.
Thankfully, the media is losing power, but when broadcasting and writing for those with underdeveloped or unread political views, they still count for a lot. The liberal media is still the most influential power in American politics. Just look at the last election in 2006.
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