Democratic Party following Dean over the cliff

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | August 02 2003

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Drango]

he's in the process of leading the party to disastrous defeat.

Dean/Sharpton '04 bump

[woofie]

off the cliff...good

[sgtbono2002]

The Democratic hatred for all things Bush , verges on insanity. Here we have a decent man taking the reins from a lying pervert who was trying desperately to give our sovereignty to the United Nations , and yet these folks want the pervert back. It isnt all the economy either it seems like they are shedding their anger for 8 years wasted on the back of the now president while giving Clinton Carte Blanche to destroy the United States.God help us if the Hildebeast ever gets in the White House.

[ken5050]

Strategically, Dean's next move should be to try and get the fring 5 candidates..who together control 20-30% of the vote..depending on which poll you read, to drop out and endorse him..by promising them power and influence in his campaign and his administration....like making Dennis Kucinich SecDef...that would just about put him over the top..

[Rocko]

Dean has roared from obscurity by expressing--and fueling--the near-hatred that Democratic activists feel for President Bush and all his works

"Near" hatred? The author has got to be kidding.

[AntiGuv]

I'm close to classifying Dean as the frontrunner, but I want to see one more quarter of fundraising. His totals got a huge $3 million boost from winning that MoveOn.org [sp?] internet primary in June. Whatever the case, the Dems seem bound and determined to nominate a far leftist and if so they will suffer the consequences of their own delusion....

I think the tenet that whoever has raised the most money going into the early primaries almost always wins the nomination will hold. BTW, if it looks like Dean's got it in the bag come October, I think Al or Hil will be pressured to get in.

[Chi-townChief]

My only concern is that Dean is slippery enough to come back to the middle and tie up the sucker moms' vote for the general election, when Iraq probably won't be as much of an issue, as even the oafish Al Gore was able to do last time.

[DarthFuzball]

This may lead to a few new terms, like Demo-lemmings.

[sinkspur]

My only concern is that Dean is slippery enough to come back to the middle and tie up the sucker moms' vote for the general election.

Not a chance. The "middle" likes candidates who are likeable, and who play well with others. Dean is angry, and despises even some in his own party, and it is evident.

No. Dean has no chance at winning the "soccer moms."

[Uncle Hal]

You have got to wonder if the Dem. candidates pandering to the left is not an open door for Gore or Hillary to come in and enter the race to save the party from itself. I could see some of the big Dems, who are not running, getting together and choosing somebody the party can agree upon. I wonder who that person would be?

[GOP Jedi]

off the cliff...good

Well, for us, yeah, but probably not for the country. Sooner or later these maniacs will get back the Congress and White House. Better that we face a relatively responsible crew seen in earlier Democrat administrations than see one controlled by Sheila Jackson Lee, Hillery, and Dean assume control.

(I say "relatively" to account for the philandering and Communists running amok in Camelot and points prior... but at least I have some confidence that FDR and Kennedy put America first.)

[austingirl]

The article says "near-hatred" of Democratic activists for Bush - no way, it is full-blown, get-out-of-the-way, double triple hatred. Other than that, fairly accurate, IMHO.

[Smokin' Joe]

Whatever the case, the Dems seem bound and determined to nominate a far leftist and if so they will suffer the consequences of their own delusion....

The Dems lack the patience to sit back and work their agenda slowly at this point. After the strides the socialists made during the Clinton regime, they are pushing to get it all in one fell swoop. One of the weaknesses of the instantaneous gratification group running the party of splinter groups and victims..

I think there is a good chance people are beginning to wake up and realize that this crap is not making their world a better place, but the big lie continues.

...as for WMD in Iraq, with the mass graves of executed people, it appears as if Saddam was a WMD, himself. The potential for the presence of other WMDs, (NBC), is enough to overtly topple the regime. I just wish the political powers that be would set a date for transitional government Iraq can live with and get our soldiers out.

[Fishrrman]

Dean is the Eugene McCarthy of 2004.

Guess who's going to be the Robert Kennedy?

(Not another carpetbagging opportunist from New York state?)

Cheers!
- John

[Jim Noble]

BTW, if it looks like Dean's got it in the bag come October, I think Al or Hil will be pressured to get in

Hillary has to wait until October '04.

She will buy Dr. Dean a ticket on Air Wellstone, and use the Torricelli NJSC ruling to overturn the ballot laws in all the states.

She can't run for 110 days (from the Boston convention to 11/04), much less for 365.

She will get in between 10/2/04 and 10/9/04, run from NBC headquarters, and has a fair chance to win.

[Eva]

Formerly backing the war, Gephardt delivered an attack on Bush policy so extreme that it can be explained only as a desperate effort to avoid losing more campaign cash--and Iowa--to Dean.

Meanwhile, Hillary goes on her non-campaign tour, raising money through book sales, which she does not have to declare as campaign donations.

[fabriclady]

NOT TO WORRY

AL'S THE MAN

VOTE FOR AL!

[DPB101]

Dean is the man and should not be underestimated by the GOP. He has Steve Grossman on his team. That is heavy duty,liberal establishment power. Dean will also get the black progressives on his side.