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OT <that means OFF TOPIC lousy golfer! Dean is looking good to Democrats
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For the last several years, the Democratic Party has been, for the
most part, leaving skid marks on the street as they have retreated
from confrontation after confrontation with the radicals who now
control the Republican party. This retreat has gone from the
ridiculous to the sublime to the utterly outrageous.
And then along comes Howard Dean, chairman of the DNC, outspoken and
uncompromising, swinging Willie Stark’s meat ax with a will and a
purpose. He dared to say that he hates Republicans, that the
leadership of that party hasn’t worked a day in their lives, that the
GOP has become a radical hothouse of right-wing Christians, almost all
of whom are white, and that House majority leader Tom DeLay should go
back to Texas and get his looming prison sentence over with. Insert
palpitations. Suddenly, Democrats like Joe Biden and Bill Richardson
start knocking over furniture and old ladies in their rush to get to a
microphone so they can distance themselves from the wild man.
The answer is straightforward, and appropriately bold after several
years of ineffective limp-noodle Democratic leadership. Every time
Dean fires off one of his salvos, reporters flip open their notebooks.
Headlines get made, discussion begins, and a whole lot of people start
debating the facts and merits of his statements. Is the Republican
leadership run by right-wing yahoos? Is DeLay going to jail?
Controversy begets press. Dean can see, as well as anyone else, how
effective the moderate, soft-touch, treading-lightly approach has been
working lately for the Democrats.
These Dean statements also, coincidentally, whip the Democratic base
into a roaring frenzy as they hear an actual Democratic leader speak
their beliefs out loud and in public. One of the things Dean is
working on every day is to redirect DNC fundraising away from the
big-dollar donors who give equally to both parties in order to hedge
their bets. Dependence on this breed of donor causes the party to crab
towards the middle and avoid anything resembling true opposition.
Dean wants DNC fundraising efforts to be focused on the common
citizen, the Democratic activist who has been screaming at the party
to say what must be said, and Dean’s inflammatory statements spark the
kind of donation avalanche that turned his Presidential campaign into
a financial juggernaut. He may have lost in the end, but the manner in
which he raised campaign money changed the face of electoral politics.
He is porting those lessons into national DNC fundraising efforts, and
statements like these go a long way towards making those efforts
wildly successful.
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We have the Democrats in our power...now!
I love this stuff!!!
Keep it up Democrats.
Great move, Carl Rove!
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Scott in Florida
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