Weak, weak attempt at a hit piece by the TNR.
I went also, and if I were to try a hit piece I'd have been equally devoid of anything negative to say, even by innuendo.
The nonsense about "Amway" training routine and "persistent ask" for dollars Ryan hopes to establish turn out to not be the case, buried 8 paragraphs later. The only dig he can come up with is claiming gossip about Dean's "idiocy" remarks, without any metric of whether it was one person, two, half, etc. I.e., non-information dressed up to look significant.
That far exceeds what any of the other campaigns are doing, but it does little to convince people that the Dean campaign is really moving beyond its now familiar base of college kids, urban young professionals, and latte-swilling social liberals.
Convince which people? Non-campaign people? Apparently he means "Ryan's people", whoever he imagines them to be. That's a poor sentence and even poorer reporting, nothing like what someone looking for facts would do.
Ryan Lizza is an associate editor at TNR.
Well, that explains it.
This sort of hubris will end badly, imo. Reminiscent of Dems saying Reagan wasn't worth competing against. |
