Posted on 02/08/2005 9:41:03 AM PST by areafiftyone
This is interesting when you think the Clintons don't like him-I thought they more or less controlled the DNC. However I love it! This helps our side!
(steely)
DemicRATS have terminal diarrhea and they are selecting Ex-Lax as their national remedy.
Heil Dean!
I don't really know how I feel about Dean getting the DNC Chairmanship---
I know that I am rather naive when it comes to politics, but I just wonder if the is a "why" that we don't know about. In other words, we are all happy about it, but at the same time, wondering "why" would they choose him, when they themselves have to know what a loser he is?
I don't want to be lumped in with the tin foil hat crowd, but I don't get it--with Hildebeast just waiting for election season to start, what is in it for her? Is she gonna run as a maverick in the Dem. party---be more centrist, moderate than even the party chair?
I'm sure someone smarter than I may know---but I don't really want to find out on the day AFTER a Hillary election for President win!
I think the D's are in a bit of a pickle. Looks like the GOP in about 1973. But at least we had Reagan waiting in the wings....the D's have....Dean and Hillary and an ever leftward-lurching base.
Dick Morris suggested the plan was for dean to wreck the party and then the dems before 08 would being bill and hill to save them and hand the strings to them.
I had previously though that we would see a backroom effort to put down dean because the Clinton's are not people to leave anything to chance and if Dean would get lucky for a year or two that would wreck 08 for them.
So it appears that dean walks in to the most powerful Job in the democratic party
The article cited bloggers intimateing that dean will blow out part of the old guard one can only wonder what they expect him to expel -- Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and those that put him down?
I guess we will see how this now plays out.
Well, the Dems' real weakness is that they're treating it all as a marketing problem.
Sure, politics is in many respects a marketing enterprise; however, it's supposed to be a matter of selling your position to voters, and not a matter of defining your positions to attract them.
The R's are doing better right now, precisely because they're mostly holding firm on their historical platform, whereas the Dems are thrashing around for a way to attract voters without mentioning their platform (which appears to be driven by abortion, primarily).
I still stay its money. The Dems wanted to tap into Dean's source. He made tons and I mean tons of money off of the ultra left internet crowd. What better person to bring in money for the DNC. The Dems have been dying to get their hands on that money flow since he dropped out of the race but he refused to give it up. He must have told them I want a piece of the action before you get a hold of my sources.
Dean will make a wonderful albatross.
Of course it will all be Karl Rove's fault somehow.
Don't you know that if a dim sneezes, it was Karl Rove that sprinkled the pepper in the air?
Dean won't raise money like McAwful could. He doesn't have the contacts to big money. Maybe, maybe he can tap into the college students to have them donate $20-$50 again, but as DNC chair, he will be forced to have self-discipline. He can't say things that will annoy too many Democratic office holders. So, he will either be a loose cannon or a party loyalist. Either way, he will annoy somebody. In fact, I don't think he will even last until the 2008 primaries. McAuliffe made the position of DNC chair a PR position. In the past (and in the GOP) this position was fundraising and logistics. Dean just will not be able to raise money and will turn off long-term donors. I think 2006 will be a blood bath. The Dems are tapped out from 2004 and Dean will say enough stupid things to turn off even the true believers.
You may be right and that money is the issue--
If that is the case, then I will say YAY, cause what Dean brings IN in money, he will LOSE in running his mouth---
The dems may really regret this, because whenever I have watched Dean, he seems to get more arrogant and more unstable, the more attention he gets, and like the article says, the DNC Chairman has the most power in the Dem. Party--this little man will puff himself up and start strutting himself around and his mouth is gonna get the dems in trouble--
I agree "follow the money" is a smart investigative maneuver, but I think the Dem party is in such tatters that nobody respectable wants to lead it at this point. I am still stunned that Bush didn't win by a larger margin but blame the press for one-sidedly portraying news as "Dems good, Republicans bad" for the past 3 decades.
The Dean money is a drop in the bucket compared to the Soros/other tycoons supporting the party. I think they squoze every dollar out of the peacenik crowd in '04 and that wouldn't have kept them on par with the Republican fundraising. I also think the clintons are aging rapidly and don't pose the threat they once did. I don't think Hillary has a chance to be president in this lifetime.
LOL..These are brilliant.
I'm in the minority here, but he scares me.
His appearance on MTP a while back was very reasoned, much more appealing than McAwful.
If he can continue to put forth that image, he'll be a real threat.
If he does wander off the reservation with comments about how he hates all Republicans, then he's the bonanza most see him to be.
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