He's Running
Howard Dean announced his candidacy for the chairmanship of the DNC today.
"As important as organization is, it alone can no longer win us elections. Offering a new choice means making Democrats the party of reform—reforming America's financial situation, reforming our electoral process, reforming health care, reforming education and putting morality back in our foreign policy. The Democratic Party will not win elections or build a lasting majority solely by changing its rhetoric, nor will we win by adopting the other side's positions. We must say what we mean—and mean real change when we say it."
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Best news I've heard all year! He's got my vote all sewed up.
reforming America's financial situation - tax and spend!
reforming our electoral process - change the game so we can win!
reforming health care - socialize!
reforming education - increase funding to teachers unions and subsidize lefty academics who can't work in the real world!
putting morality back in our foreign policy - suck up to the UN!
WTF? This is different how? This is going to win how?
Oh wait, nevermind. Dean didn't say anything about socializing health care or any other thing in this speech. STFU, anon.
Oh, you must be right. Obviously it was a reference to limiting malpractice awards. Nevermind his own track record in Vermont.
Are you really that stupid? STFU? Way to forward the discourse - You could find better ways to emulate the VP.
"STFU" may not lead to healthy discourse, but neither will regurgitating five points from your typical loud-mouth conservative radio star.
Wow! The old, "I'm rubber, you're glue" defense.
What you're not getting is that Dr Dean is going to drive the party further and further to the fringe. The "regurgitation" of his positions comes across like a talk radio show but its absolutely correct. The Democratic Party IS OUT OF TOUCH with the people.
The agenda they are pushing is not popular, its not that people don't understand it. They do, and they don't like it. Good hell, in NYC, during the election Rush Limbaugh beat Air America by better than 4:1! In NY! CBS is dumping left-wing staff. FOXnews is kicking the crap out of CNN. Look at the election! Everywhere the truth is clear.
Liberal media is failing. Its failing BECAUSE of the message.
The message is NOT resonating.
The message doesn't need a new spokesman.
The message is wrong.
The message needs to change.
Consistently loosing will not accomplish anything and Dean's just more of the same.
Oh come off it.
First of all, that's not Dean's message. He's a budget balancing moderate who figured out how to provide good services at an affordable price.
Second, your side only won by 2 million votes. It was a close election, not a realignment.
P.S.: Am I supposed to support CNN because it whores itself to the right wing slightly less than Fox? I don't think so. CNN is losing viewers because it sucks. That's not a problem of liberalism.
" [Dean is] a budget balancing moderate who figured out how to provide good services at an affordable price."
ROTFLMAO! Way to go kiddo, you tell 'em.
Dean balanced the budget of Vermont 11 years in a row, Swiftee.
Look at his record -- he's a moderate.
Populist? Yes.
Pragmatist? Yes.
Socially liberal, fiscally conservative? Yes.
Wide-eyed radical socialist liberal? Not exactly.
"Wide-eyed radical socialist liberal?"
YEEAAAHHHH!!!!Luke - Once upon a time, the Democratic Party controlled both houses. Now they are trying to hold enough to effectively obstruct in the Senate. Do you really think its a one time two million vote difference? You don't see a larger trend here?
Time to cut the fringe loose! And by the way it wasn't my side that won. I would rather have small victories and take little progressive steps forward than continue to fail and suffer these sorts of consequences.
"Wide-eyed radical socialist liberal? Not exactly."
BUT TOO MUCH TO WIN.
"Wide-eyed radical socialist liberal?"
YEEAAAHHHH!!!!
"Do you really think its a one time two million vote difference? You don't see a larger trend here?"
I see gerrymandering and an advantage to small (read: Republican) states in the Senate.
48%.
Luke - you are truly a moron who can only see what he wants.
48%.
I'm continually amazed at the willful ignorance of people (left and right) who think Dean is some sort of crazy left-winger. John Kerry is more liberal than Howard Dean, at least on the record. Yeeeaaaaaaaaah all you want - Dean is socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
BusinessWeek:
Who's the Real Howard Dean?"As Vermont governor, the liberal firebrand was a fiscal conservative with close ties to business"
Joe Trippi is for Rosenberg
Chuck -
They are BOTH too far right. Throw away another election why don't you.
Will do, thanks.
What or who do you propose, anon?
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