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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (219006)	2/14/2005 3:05:54 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574848

Ted, do you know why Dean lost momentum a few weeks before the Iowa caucus in 2004? Yes, IMO there are multiple reasons............because he was a little too volatile for the residents of Iowa, because his message was little more confronting and controversial than the Dems liked and because he was shorter than Bush. ted

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (219006)	2/14/2005 3:30:12 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574848

You know things truly are messed up when the GOP gets angry because the Dems won't do what the GOP says they must do to right their sinking ship! lol ******************************************************* New York GOP leader attacks Dean** By MARC HUMBERT AP Political Writer February 14, 2005, 2:27 PM EST ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York's Republican state chairman said Monday that Howard Dean's election as Democratic national chairman shows the rival party's leaders "have refused to learn the lessons of the past two election cycles." "Howard Dean is the personification of today's national Democratic Party _ elite, radical, out-of-control, and sadly out-of-touch with ordinary Americans," said state GOP Chairman Stephen Minarik. "The Democrats simply have refused to learn the lessons of the past two election cycles, and now they can be accurately called the party of Barbara Boxer, Lynne Stewart and Howard Dean," Minarik added. Boxer is a liberal Democratic senator from California. Stewart is a New York City-based veteran civil rights lawyer convicted last week of helping terrorists by smuggling messages from one of her imprisoned clients, a radical Egyptian sheik, to his colleagues on the outside. Stewart has said her conviction will be appealed. Minarik's Democratic counterpart in New York, Herman Farrell, was dismissive of the GOP leader's statements. "The New York Republican Party is in shambles," the state Democratic chairman said. "You are broke and fighting among yourselves. Governor (George) Pataki's popularity ratings have sunk to record lows. In the last decade, you have lost seats in both houses in Albany, both houses in Washington, statewide and in counties across the state. "Come back to us after you have won a few races," Farrell added. Dean, the former Vermont governor who failed in his bid last year for the Democratic presidential nomination, was elected Saturday to head the Democratic National Committee. GOP National Chairman Ken Mehlman had congratulated Dean on his election and put out a statement Saturday describing the former Vermont governor as "a strong leader for his party." But the anti-Dean offensive espoused by Minarik was more along the lines of what has been expected from GOP leaders, especially at the state level where Dean has said he expects to focus much of his early attention. He has promised to rebuild the Democratic Party from the grass-roots level on up. Republicans, much like Dean's rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, have sought to portray him as a left-leaning liberal who is well out of the political mainstream. As governor of Vermont, he had a more moderate reputation. newsday.com