Reply #25: What's insulting, Pete [View All]

[Eloriel]

Is your dismissal of the dirty tricks that the Party Insiders HAVE engaged in to STOP DEAN at all costs.

Yes, there are people like you who just like the man, and more power to you. And yes, Dean and the campaign have made some mistakes -- altho a good many of those "mistakes" have been way overblown media fabrications.

But to try to say that there have been NO shenanigans by Party Insiders is specious, at best. I'm (once again tonight) surprised at you.

* Push polling
* Robocalling Dean supporters at all hours of the night
* Osama bin Laden ad
* Vilsack machine in the Iowa caucus
* Gephardt-Kerry deal, Kucinich-Edwards deal (yeah, perfectly legal and all that -- but please don't try to pass them off as anything but Party Insiders working damn hard to STOP DEAN AT ALL COSTS)
* Sending Dean supporters to the wrong locations for the caucus in Iowa -- and I'm hearing the same thing is happening in New Mexico too

and the one that infuriates me the MOST:

* Co-opt every bit of Dean's message, then go into fearmongering mode n order to try to convince voters that Kerry is more electable. 56% of Kerry's votes in NH were on electability. Dean is going to have to come out swinging hard on this issue because it's just NOT true that Kerry is more electable, and people are obviously so scared of Bush that Kerry-with-Dean's-message plus his fearmongering for votes gave him two big wins.