Here is the transcript of Howard Dean's appearance this morning on Meet The Press. He really gets a lot of the forward-thinking strategies for the Democratic Party: populism and reform, framing issues agressively, grassroots organizing, bottom-up instead of top-down decision-making and candor at all times.
I'm going to ask around and see what the Illinois voters are thinking. I'll bet there's something in Speaker Madigan's mind that finds Dean's grassroots, populist, bottom-up message appealing.
5 comments:
Yes! Yes! Yearrrrrgh!! I think Dean would be a great DNC chair because (i) I'm a Republican; (ii) Dean's a crazy Northeast antiwar Liberal; and (iii) his leadership will spark the coming civil war on the Left. I loved this statement by Dean: "I think we are left by Terry McAuliffe with a big surplus, and he's done a great job in terms of leaving this party in good financial condition." Does Dean understand that McAuliffe's only job was to raise cash for Hillary and to hell with winning elections in the '00 and '04 cycles? The struggle for the purse-strings of the Democratic Party is about to go nuclear. MoveOn.org has already claimed ownership. Now Dean wants to control the cash that has been amassed for one purpose - Hillary '08. Let the chaos begin.
"MoveOn.org has already claimed ownership."
Is there a specific website where you can sign up for GOP talking points, or does it require owning a fax machine....?
The quote from MoveOn.org was: "Now it's our party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back." I'd call that "claiming ownership." It's on the web in a million places; it's also mentioned in the Dean interview that DJW reprinted above. Here's a CNN link: http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/09/democrats.critics.ap/
CF (oh, and I posted the comment above too). Yearrrrrgh!
CNN got it wrong. I saw the source statement and in context the statement was referring to small donors who propped up the Kerry campaign as being the owners.
But I'm not wasting effort debating Republican "talking points", as the comment above so rightly points out.
What I'm glad to see is how steeped in your own delusions you are. The Democratic party is moving left to the center of American political belief. As a Republican noise machine mouthpiece you can't hear it. The DLC Democrats have and will continue to have no place to go but left. As we "centrists", the so-called-left-wing of the Democratic party continue to reposses the party, so will the swing mentalities follow. They are attracted to strength of position, we have that. When the DLC types moved right, swing mentalities thought, "oh that must be the correct direction, we'll vote Bush."
So moving left to the center will be a win-win for us. We will re-energize our base and attract those swing voters looking for strongly held values. But you see in-fighting and break-up. Good. Stay deluded.
Where do the Republicans get the idea that opposing the war in Iraq is bad politics? Bush won the Presidency with the narrowest margin for an incumbent President since the 1920s, against a candidate who was inconsistent in his opposition to the war in Iraq. Opinion polls consistently show a slight majority of Americans opposing the war. Opposition to the war will only decrease as the number of American casualties increase. I'd say that Dean's anti-war credentials will be a boost for the Dems.
As for Madigan: it's my understanding that the state party chairs will be voting as a group. My guess is that Madigan views the DNC chairmanship as somewhat irrelevant to his political goals.
Vasyl (anonymous only because I haven't registered on blogger)
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