RE-DEFEAT BUSH/CHENEY 1984!
Bumper Sticker seen on the Net.....
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first of all George Bush was not even elected the President.
Judicial coup d'etats are like that. :)
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The problem I have with (Dean) is that he calls on the Democratic party Chairman to save him from personal attacks.
Let me put your mind at ease. What Dr. Dean was doing there was to try to get some adult supervision of the vicious pack of ankle biters who are madly offering Karl Rove a ton of ammunition for the fall campaign. Rove is deliriously happy that the Democrats appear to be (and possibly even are) a pack of dundering dingalings and small-minded low brow browbeaters. Dean was asking McAuliffe to get the rat pack to come to their senses and attack the real enemy, Bush and his criminal cabal, and get past the internecine destructiveness that minority parties seem so universally prone to. Of course McAuliffe, a loyal Hillary bootlicker, would have none of it.
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The problem I have with him is when he says that some Democratic voters will not come out to vote if he is not the nominee
You continually seem to have the most trouble with Dean when he tells the truth. Why is that?
A large group of Dean supporters are fervent and young. They remind me a lot of myself at 18 when I spent endless hours campaigning for Senator Eugene McCarthy in 1968. We were a completely enthusiastic army. Even though it would be a few more years before 18 year olds could vote. By the time the dust settled, RFK had been murdered and Humphrey was the compromised candidate, I didn't give a shit about politics and that was true for thousands of us. We let Nixon win because the Democratic candidate was such a compromised loser. Not that Humphrey wasn't a brave man on civil rights. But he was a total jerk on imperialism. Dean is simply telling you the truth. Why do your resent it?
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There is indeed a Gore vs. Clinton thing going on in the party and Dean decided to jump in headlong and side with Gore.
<My eyes are rolling around, leering at such tomfoolery> Good god, Chinu, you seem completely out of touch with reality on this one. Gore tried like hell to get some traction in early 2002 with a couple of fiery speeches and the Party yawned. He was shut out of the 2004 election at that time. Dean was the man with all the MoMo by this past fall. You got your statuses reversed. Gore is crawling on the Dean bandwagon, not the other way around. Gore had lost his status, except as a firebrand speaker and elder statesman. He didn't hold the party apparatus in his hands. The Clintons still have that. And the Clintons will be some of the most vicious infighters that Dean will have to contend with.
Because if Dean wins the nomination, the Clintons are going to be severely weakened. And if Dean wins the Presidency, the Clintons will become just a footnote in American history. And they both are far more power mad than to allow this to easily happen. |
