Under pressure, Dean starts to come unraveled
Watching Howard Dean scream in slow motion
By Soren Dayton Posted in 2008 | DNC | Howard Dean — Comments (26) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Today, Howard Dean did something very silly. He demanded that John McCain apologize for something that Tom Tancredo said about immigration and the Catholic Church. For real.
Several problems with this. First, Tancredo has not endorsed McCain. Second, McCain's position is reasonably close to the Catholic Church's.
So what is going on? Dean's failures at the DNC are leading to his unraveling. Read on.
You see, Dean has a couple of problems.
First, as Pejman noted, Dean is freaking out because the Democratic nomination fight is lasting too long.
Second, John McCain is getting to define himself. The 527s and 501c4s, which Dean doesn't control, are not doing their job. For example, Progressive Media is running ads in Washington, DC.
Third, because John McCain is able to define himself, he is pulling the Republican coalition back together and expanding it into a new, winning, McCain coalition.
Fourth, Howard Dean is getting crushed at fundraising by the RNC.
But that doesn't explain this particular attack, You see, Barack Obama has a Hispanic problem, which is why Dean is talking about immigration, and a Catholic problem, which is why he is talking about the Pope. In general, Democrats are beginning to worry that Barack Obama may not be electable.
So, you see, nothing is going right for this guy. He is looking at being an abject failure. This bizarre attack trying to link McCain to Tancredo is just the beginning of another Dean scream
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one does wonder when he was raveled.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
and it's not a bad idea given the hand he was dealt, is to try to revive the wedge between McCain and the immigration-hawk faction that nearly destroyed McCain's campaign.
McCain's made it pretty clear that he disagrees with the Tank's wing of the party but has made his peace, however uneasy, with taking a more gradual, piecemeal approach to immigration. But voters aren't ignorant rubes; most people are capable of understanding that McCain and the immigration hawks are distinct groups pulling in different directions.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
He actually calls Tancredo a "McCain campaign surrogate". Anyone who paid even the slightest attention knows that there isn't much love lost between McCain and Tancredo, and he's far from being anything close to a "campaign surrogate".
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
By way of expansion, they voted for him, his issues, and things that do them no good what so ever. So yes not only does he think it, in his bones he knows they are suckers.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
(excuse me)
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA!!!
DNC pores over agencies’ records for dirt on McCain
By Sam Youngman
Posted: 04/17/08 07:49 PM [ET]
"The Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a number of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with Cabinet-level agencies and inter-agency departments looking for opposition research to use against presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.).
In early February, there was a sharp uptick in the number of FOIA requests from the DNC with McCain as a specific target. February was about the same time McCain emerged as the front-runner and likely nominee.
A review of FOIA requests and independent confirmations obtained by The Hill turned up requests from the DNC at at least three agencies – the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of the Interior (DOI), the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the Commerce Department.
According to one filing, Alicia McClintock, a DNC operative, wrote DOI asking for “any and all records of communication (including but not limited to letters, written requests, reports, telephone records, electronic communication) between your agency and John McCain or his offices/staff from 1999 to present during which period he has been a United States Senator.”
A spokeswoman for the DNC said the FOIA requests and research efforts are “standard.”
The review did not turn up any similar requests from the Republican National Committee (RNC), which employs an expansive research department.
An RNC official declined to discuss “strategy or specific tactics” but did say the committee is “taking every step to define the Democratic opposition, whether it’s Sen. Obama or Sen. Clinton.”
The RNC has not been shy about targeting either candidate thus far.
But the DNC has become much more vocal and visible in its criticisms of McCain in recent weeks.
While the party’s eventual nominee remains locked in an intensifying battle with a fellow Democrat, the DNC has opted to target McCain with a laser-like focus."
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA!!!
I predict breathless front-page articles in America's major newspapers beginning any time now, authored with the help of DNC operatives who were on the receiving ends of these FOIA requests.
Count on it.
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Probably from Dean's point of view, which is to say, from the planet Beldar in the Ka'athi Nebula.
From that height, perhaps they do appear similar.
We who follow politics from this planet, however, know that Tancredo and McCain test opposite limits of the Big Tent.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
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Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words...-Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes
"Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper" Peter Griffin...Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity....or else!!!
I usually have drum and keyboard parts on CD backing up my voice and guitar in my solo shows, and there's usually a sound bite from something or another between every two songs. The Dean Scream never gets old and it never bores an audience.
...when Dean LOST his party's nomination...they...made...HIM...their...LEADER!
Overheard in a smoke-filled room deep in the bowels of DNC HQ: "How to we win the next election boys? I know! Let's put the loser in charge."
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. --- John Adams
Terry McAuliffe was the genius who wanted to force an early frontrunner in 2004 and gave us John Kerry. Now he's in charge of Hillary's campaign.
He's going to tell all the super d's to vote for a Third candidate.........Howard Dean !!
"Hey Barry...Hey Hill...I take it from here.......YeeeeeeaAAAAAAAARRGGH"
He's a good, solid liar, but any Democrat would be good for that.
He should simply be saying "This is our party process: we have primaries, delegates, and superdelegates. The delegates -- all of them -- will meet at the convention in Denver to nominate the next President."
He's caving under the pressure, because he's afraid to tell people they need to follow the rules.
Of course, I have zero expectation of being either heard or heeded in this advice.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
without the underlying assumption that most voting Americans are complete morons? I'm annoyed by Dean -- I wish I was surprised.
Fred Thompson, 2008
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
sadly, they "do" a lot. If they'd just sit there being stupid, they wouldn't be such a problem. It's that nagging desire of theirs to spread the stupidity around that causes all the trouble.
POI: A work friend of mine mentioned to me today that he wished the Dems would just recognize their faults. I found that amusing, since if the Dems recognized their faults, they'd be Republicans.
Fred Thompson, 2008
I wonder what effect his demand that the supers line up their support will have? Will they dutifully comply or allow him to swing in the wind? I'd imagine it gets fairly lonely for Dean sometimes, 'cause he's not making any friends in the democrat party right now...
As I said, he ought to be calmly insisting that the process is what it is, and this is all to be expected, is making the eventual nominee stronger, and that after the convention there will be plenty of time for blah blah AAAAAaaaaaaaeeeeaaargh!
Sorry, slipped into Dean too much there.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
The man is both symbol and representative of his party, that's why he is where he is. Big mouth, no self control, vituperative, and probably mad as a hatter.
All in all, a potential good running mate for whoever out smears his or her opponent for the Democratic nomination.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville