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.
