The totality of Dean is the scream. Well, I'll grant him his one good idea: the internet scam he ran on the squeegy kids, getting $200 a pop. That's where Dean will hurt the movement: he will act as if its his money and be gnarly towards anyone not batting to far left field. Right now the only Dean drawback from a Republican perspective is that folk like Billary will seem more moderate and respectable than they really are - because they will have to rebuke Dean and the nutters from the get go.
bbking said:
I really get a kick out of Republicans when they seem all happy with the Dems choice of Dean. You Republicans have fallen in love with your sound bits, and Howard Dean is much more than the scream. He is a proven grass roots organiser and fund raiser - key parts of his job at the DNC. In addition it allows the Dems to move to the center right with their candidates while keeping the left happy with control of the DNC. I think the GOP is in for rude shock come 2006 and 2008 with Dean at the helm.
Nobody imagines Billary to be a slouch - after all, we're talking about the other half of the Sleaze Team here. My call is that there exists something, something uncovered during Bubba's trial, that wasn't used due to Bubba's Presidential immunity and was shelved for the very possibility of a Billary campaign. As for Dem governors, I'm not really in the loop on this (no way I'm going to sub New Republic).
Nobody is going to rest on their laurels. The margin was slim, perhaps even razor thin. But don't forget, a campaign was fought against an adversary that had declared total war; and fought to the death, an adversary that still controlled the remaining vestiges of the cultural clergy; aided and abetted by the vast resources of that theocracy, an adversary out to do anything, ethical or not, to ensure victory. And defeating such an adversary was no small feat.
Now as for Bilary - well you can go on all you want but Bilary is a formidable campaign team that you under estimate at your peril. Now having said that, I think the Dems will go with a Governor in 2008.
...but have your fun, I think there are a number of good Dem Governors out their that can give any GOP a run for their money. You guys forget you won with some of the smallest percentages in history - while I wont take it from you that you won, I wouldn't be resting on my laurals with those numbers if I were you.