Reply #39: Dean orchestrated his own downfall [View All]

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

Poor management and naivete forced his hand. The worst thing about that scream playing 700 times is that it dwarfed his message that night and his message that night was one of being the underdog and behind after only losing one small race in one small state.

I am glad the buck stops at the media, the lemmings and the other candidates, but I don't really see where that is too awful empowering to Howard Dean.

People could just as easily take the WIN that he GOT grass rooters involved and then build on it rather than use it as a poundstone for antagonism, but that will largely depend on how Howard Dean frames it in the final analysis and what HE makes it mean.

Hopefully, he will pull a page from the Clark campaign and do it with grace and a sense of a bigger purpose.

I for one won't accuse him of copying anyone if he does.