Reply #52: hmmm... these grapes taste kind of sour... [View All]

[wyldwolf]

..."In Dean's "You Have The Power," centrist Democrats get much of the blame for allowing right-wing Republicans to rise to national power. Dean also complains that reporters and editors give too much attention to campaign strategy and not enough to the issues...."

Funny... Dean is a centrist democrat...

..."He writes that he learned shortly before the Wisconsin primary that some of his Democratic rivals had created a political action committee with $1 million to attack him before the leadoff Iowa caucuses. He said he found out that former Sen. Robert Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat who resigned during a campaign finance scandal, had provided $50,000..."

You mean Dean (and his followers) weren't prepared for the reality of politics? The others in the primaries should have rolled over for him?

I also recall a few "dirty tricks" Dean was involved with, including planning to bring in non-Iowa residents to boost Dean's support at the caucuses.

..."President Clinton was calling Democrats encouraging them to switch allegiances in the months before the Iowa caucuses to retired Gen. Wesley Clark. Dean recounts that one of the people Clinton called was a Dean supporter who described how the former president said that Dean "had forfeited his right to run for president." That was because, Dean writes, he had signed a law creating civil unions for gay and lesbian couples and Clinton believed Dean couldn't be elected as a result....."

Clinton was right.

And Dean is wrong (IMO) for airing his dirty laundry before the election.

Thanks, Howie!