There has been more and more speculation that the Chairman of the DNC Howard Dean is going to be replaced at some point. After his latest comments that the Republican Party was "pretty much a white, Christian party." He has been increasingly criticized by fellow Democrats including recently Sen. Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. John Hawkins of Right Wing News correctly calls him the human gaffe machine. Besides the irony of his latest dumb statement coming from a white man and self-identified Christian which is pretty funny coming from a man who was a Governor of a state that pretty much always has a "white" Christmas. I find it funny that of course Dean’s counterpart Ken Melman is in fact Jewish and this speech coming days before Janice Rogers Brown is finally confirmed. Really none of this is surprising coming from a party where the word Christian is more and more a pejorative.
I really don’t believe that Howard Dean is going to be let go though anytime soon. When he was elected he was a known quantity. There can be no really shock since he would put his foot in the mouth so many times that he has developed athlete’s mouth. The Democratic party is known for sticking with disastrous choices. Terry McAuliffe headed defeat after defeat where each and every election was his Waterloo. Howard Dean is only channeling the Democratic Party and the things he says are only what many of them really believe. He view is after all no different than the editorial page of the NY Times. Democrats have embraced many losing causes and are loyal to those dragging the party down, so I really doubt that Mr. Dean we be shown the door anytime soon. Republicans of course have the opposite problem and will throw one of their members (or a judicial nominee) under a bus at the first possibility of things going awry even if not quite true.
The only caveat to what I say is concerning Deans fundraising capabilities for the DNC. So far they have been disastrous with the RNC have raised 3 to 4 times more money in the same time. Terry McAuliffe for all of his faults brought in the bucks. They might accept Mr. Dean in a tinfoil hat, but not if he bankrupts the party. I mean they have to have money to competively lose elections. Some have speculated that Howard Dean was chosen to make Hillary Clinton look moderate by comparison. I don’t buy that at all. There is just no good political comparison to use of how this has ever succeeded and why anybody would think that it could. Howard Dean was chosen because many Democrats think he is brave for telling it as it is. There is no sticker shock – his quirks were already on the sticker for everyone to see.
But who am I to say. I am just a white Christian who has never worked a day in my life. Though I still think the graphic in this post explains it all.
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I think you are correct. I think Howard Dean most closely annunciates the authentic position of the Democrat party, and I think he should keep talking and be widely publicized.
Editorial note: “I really don’t believe that Howard Dean is going to be let go though anytime soon. When he was elected he was a known quality.”
I think you meant to use quanity rather quality. There is nothing of quality in the positions of Dean.
Dean is a self parody… a blogger’s dream. But he isn’t leaving anytime soon as he is merely saying what a whole lot of Democrats already think.
After Deans rants and screaming during his campain to be the Democratic candidate, I started to wonder if maybe, just maybe he hadn’t been a televission evangelist as some earlier time in his life. Just a thought.
I ain’t complainin’.
The key to whether Dean is kept around is the money. Everybody knew Dean was going to be a media disaster, but they brought him on because they wanted to tap the far, far left for cash. If he’s bringing in the $$, they’ll keep him, no matter how much he embarrasses them and no matter how badly they do in the ’06 elections.
I don’t know whether he’s bringing in the duckets or not, but that’s where to look if you want to predict if he’ll still be around in a year.
I live in a Congressional district (North Shore of Chicago) that has one of the most far-out leftists as a congresswomyn. She is so far left that she has secretly disavowed her right arm and hand, refusing to even wash it. So don’t shake hands with her.
However, for her consutituents’ sake, she poses as “Little Mrs. Consumer Advocate, Good Jewish Mom
and Regular Gal”. Dean provides the perfect cover for her. He can vocalize his hallucinations
and take the heat, while she can clandestinely meet with her little caucus and planning groups as they seek ways to impose socialism with a Marxist “C” on the rest of us.
He is like the Dems hand-wrapped gift to the GOP. I can’t imagine they’ll let him go on like this without muzzling or more soon. (at least I sure hope so … my sides are hurting from laughing at what he seems to think are clever points scored off the Republicans).
You understand the Democrats all too well, Jeff
Guess what — Dean is right about the Republican party.