Say It Ain’t So, Howard

Is Howard Dean getting a clue?

Howard Dean is no longer screaming – he’s scheming. The failed presidential candidate whose howling adieu to the Iowa caucuses helped seal his fate as a presidential candidate is plotting to overhaul the Democratic Party.

Borrowing ideas from President Bush’s re-election campaign, Madison Avenue and his own Internet-driven White House bid, the Democratic National Committee chairman hopes to drag the party into the 21st century.

He can try. He won’t succeed. Why?

"What I’m trying to do is impose a system and run this place like a business," Dean said during an expansive interview in his office overlooking the Capitol.

Would that business be a mental institution, where the staff is also the inmates? Yup.

That vision would be welcome news to party strategists who have complained that the DNC and its chairman of nine months lag behind Republicans in the political arts of messaging, targeting and organizing.

Yup, that’s what’s important to Dean and the Left, folks. Messaging, targeting, and organizing. WHy should Dean bother? All the groups, such as America Coming Together, Media Matters, MoveOn, etc, are doing just fine. What the Democrats are missing is a real message. If all they are putting out is negative smears, then what is the point? We know that, other then hate Bush, the Dems have no agenda’s, no plans, no points. Oh, excuse me, there is one other. Propping up abortion "rights."

And Howie doesn’t get that the Dems are an empty suit.

He also believes that voters are more interested in a candidate’s intangible leadership qualities than his positions on lists of issues.

"We have to appeal to people’s hearts and not just their heads," he said.

That is all that the Progressives have been doing. Why else nominate John Kerry? A man who had 11 pieces of fluff passed in the Senate during a 20 year hitch. A man with no real plans or positions. Other then bash Bush, of course.

This is good news for the GOP, as it means more years of nothing but complaints from the Democrats. The middle ground voters will only take so much of the insanity before moving away from the Liberals. Like a child who is constantly told "no," they will tune out the Dems like the child turns out "no." Cry Wolf Syndrome.

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12 Responses to “Say It Ain’t So, Howard”

  1. Maggie says:

    Yeeks, they will never get it…..it’s WHAT you say…not how you say it!

  2. I’m sure they will come out with a few pithy slogans, which provide zero content.

  3. Mark says:

    It’s better to have no message at all than the message of the right wing. What is the message of the right wing? Succor the rich; forsake the poor; trash the environment; gut our civil liberties, including habeas corpus; make war of aggression in which thousands of women and children are burned, maimed, paralyzed and murdered; torture people; greatly increase the nation’s debt to the point of emergency; and just generally be inhuman monsters.

  4. Ogre says:

    I still think Hillary is going to be very hard to beat.

  5. That is exactly the type of message that causes the Dems to lose, Mark. You offer nothing positive for the Dems, just anti-GOP talking points. Where are your plans? You do HAVE plans, right? Anything? Can you tell us how you and the Dems would do better? Shit, you can’t? Bereft of ideas? Getting the GOP out of power doesn’t do it, unless you tell us how you can be better.

    Ogre, true, Hillary will be tough, but, I think that either Rudy or (gack) McCain can take her. The Electoral College will be close, but I do not think the popular vote will be as close as 2004 was.

  6. Mark says:

    I have plenty of plans. Raise taxes so we don’t bankrupt the treasury. Reduce the Pentagon’s budget by two-thirds and help the 30,000 people who starve to death every day. If we were to be charitable in the world, good neighbors instead of the world’s bully, we wouldn’t need to spend insane amounts of money on weapons and machines that are meant only to kill people. Put more money into education so the disadvantaged can get decent education and get ahead in the world. Put the teeth back into the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. Stop giving welfare to corporations and passing laws and devising that will help only the corporations at the expense of the people. Give us back our civil rights, repeal the Patriot Act and don’t allow the president to hold people without a trial. Stop torturing people. Get out of Iraq. The war has been a collosal failure. It couldn’t possibly have been any worse than it is. Stop giving money to artists who are already established. Stop giving money to artists, period. Cut the corporate welfare out of the energy bill and force the automobile manufacturers to increase the mileage on their products. Cut the pork out of all bills that go through Congress and across Dear Leader’s desk. Stop giving aid to Israel until they treat the Palestinians decently and justly.

    I could go on and on all day writing here, but I’m not going to waste it on you.

  7. Perhaps you might consider passing them on to the Democratic Party, Mark. However, based on the past 5 years, they will not listen.

    However, raising taxes destimulates the economy. I will never understand people actually wanting to pay more in taxes. It is your money, you know?

    Stop giving money to artists, period. We have lots of money in education. The problem is not the money, but the systems, and the fact that parents are becoming less and less involved. Schools are becoming baby sitter services.

    Perhaps you should take a look and see how much money we give to other countries, and have for most of the past century. It is alot. Reducing the military budget will diminish our ability to project power, and protect our sovreignity.

    As far as Civil Rights, no one has been able to quantitatively say what rights we have lost. And, if you say sneak and peek, otherwise know as delayed notification, that has been around since the late 70’s. It was just broadened to cover pedophiliacs and terrorists. If you aren’t one, or a drug dealer, part of organized crime, no problems.

    Geez, got me writing a whole new post now. 🙂

  8. Mark says:

    The United States gives very little in humanitarian aid. It is about $10 billion per year, or 17 one-thousandths of 1 percent of the budget. We do next to nothing for the starving people. And Clinton stopped giving humanitarian aid to Africa and replaced it with military aid.

    Most politicians are crooks and liars. I don’t know why that is so hard for you guys to figure out.

  9. William Teach says:

    Well, there is something we agree on, Mark. I think it was Will Rogers who said “we elect people that we wouldn’t have home for dinner.”

  10. Evil Progressive says:

    Yeah! Like your cretinous President would ever get a clue…

    Right on the heels of the Brownie disaster, the twit has put up for nomination two unqualified and incompetent hacks: Julie Myers and Harriett Meiers.

    The former’s claim to fame is that she is the niece of recently retired General Myers, was the Chief of Staff of Michael Chertoff when that hapless idiot was at Justice, and she just married the hapless idiot’s current Chief of Staff.

    The other has been lovestruck with the cretin for so long that she will behave and be a good little toadie and do anything the Moron-in-Chief tells her to do.

  11. Captain Video says:

    It is always hard for a party out of power to have a UNIFIED message because there is no single leader. A unified message for the Democratic Party will appear when the Democratic Presidential candidate is chosen. But the Democratic Party has many positive messages at this point to choose from.

    Some examples:

    End the Republican’s economic policy of class warfare, that is, its policy of redistributing income and wealth from the poor and middle income people to the rich and priviledged. Instead, conduct economic policy for the benefit of ordinary Americans for a change.

    Bring the Deficit under control by reversing the totally unjustified tax cuts for the rich. The economy boomed in the later 1990s after Clinton raised the taxes on the rich and the deficit was turned into a surplus.

    Conduct a policy of GENUINE compassion. Among, other things, make sure that Americans, and especially children,no longer die needlessly from perfectly curable diseases because they cannot pay for the needed medical care. That is,bring on a genuine culture of life.

    Keep the government from trying to dictate to people how to conduct their personal life. Put an end to the effort of the social conservatives to use the government to impose their values on the American people by force.

    End the current foreign policy of unilateral bullying, such as, for example, engaging in an unprovoked war of agression against a country on false pretenses. Replace this with a policy that produces genuine multinational support in fighting the real dangers to this county, such as Al Qaida.

  12. Captain Video says:

    “I still think Hillary is going to be very hard to beat.”

    I really don’t think that it is a foregone conclusion that Hillary will be the Demoratic candidate.

    She has a number of problems. Most obviously, she is too much of a polarizing figure and is likely to have serious problems carrying swing states that the Democrats will need to win.

    In addition, she played a significant role in helping Bush lure America into the Iraqi quagmire. And she continues to be much too pro war.

    The Democrats, at this point, should consider a number of possible candidates. One of them is Al Gore. After all Gore already won the presidential election once.

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