Friday, June 10, 2005
Can You Hear it Now: The Drumbeat Continues Against Clucky Howard Dean
For months now, as donations have slowed to a trickle and their chairman has riled up everyone except Martians, Downies have come to the fatal conclusion that making Howard Dean chairman of their silly party was the worst move since naming phony war hero John Kerry as their presidential candidate. Some Downies will stand by Dean - these are what we usually call "dolts," or "birdbrains," or "cretins," or "the feeble-minded." In short, stupid. But some Downies realize that the party is sinking faster than the Titanic, and are trying to jump off before the whole shabang plunges under the depths:
Dean's Zeal Is Looking Like Zealotry, Some Fear; Tone down the rhetoric, Democrats tell their leader after his recent inflammatory remarks
And this is in the Los Angeles Times, a far left rag which considers Hillary Clinton a moderate. So if this is what they are saying, can you imagine what is going on in the halls of power where Downies have none, and in the minds of donors who are being asked to fund this disaster?
For months now, as donations have slowed to a trickle and their chairman has riled up everyone except Martians, Downies have come to the fatal conclusion that making Howard Dean chairman of their silly party was the worst move since naming phony war hero John Kerry as their presidential candidate. Some Downies will stand by Dean - these are what we usually call "dolts," or "birdbrains," or "cretins," or "the feeble-minded." In short, stupid. But some Downies realize that the party is sinking faster than the Titanic, and are trying to jump off before the whole shabang plunges under the depths:
Dean's Zeal Is Looking Like Zealotry, Some Fear; Tone down the rhetoric, Democrats tell their leader after his recent inflammatory remarks
WASHINGTON — When Howard Dean was chosen to head their party, Democrats looked forward to the benefits of his bristling energy and zest for political combat.
But at a private meeting Thursday on Capitol Hill, a number of worried Senate Democrats warned Dean that he had been going overboard and needed to choose his words more carefully.
The former Vermont governor and unsuccessful presidential candidate recently referred to the GOP as "pretty much a white, Christian party" and declared that a lot of Republicans have "never made an honest living in their lives."
Sen. Russell D. Feingold (D-Wis.) said that at the Capitol Hill meeting, "there couldn't be any doubt that there was some concern, even by Dean himself," about how his comments had been received.
The meeting had been scheduled to discuss party strategy before Dean's controversial comments.
Also Thursday, two Democrats seen as rising stars — Rep. Harold Ford of Tennessee and Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner — made a point of distancing themselves from Dean's remarks.
Ford, who plans a Senate run next year, said on the Don Imus radio show that if Dean could not "temper his comments, it may get to the point where the party may need to look elsewhere for leadership, because he does not speak for me."
Ford later told The Times that Dean was "leading us in a direction that makes it difficult to win…. His leadership right now is not serving any of us very well."
Warner, who has been mentioned as a possible 2008 presidential candidate, said Dean was using "not the kind of tone that I would use, not the kind of tone a lot of the Democratic governors in mostly Republican states are using to get elected or to govern." Warner made his comments at a luncheon at The Times' Washington bureau.
And this is in the Los Angeles Times, a far left rag which considers Hillary Clinton a moderate. So if this is what they are saying, can you imagine what is going on in the halls of power where Downies have none, and in the minds of donors who are being asked to fund this disaster?
