Reply #24: You couldn't BE more factually wrong. [View All]

[RazzleDazzle]

Dean is the one who IS fighting back. He's doing that by building the Party in all 50 states. He's doing that by building grassroots organizing efforts in all 50 states.

He has NO authority or power or influence over the Washington Dems and they hate him. Before he was even elected to the DNC they made him promise NOT to try to get nvolved in policy. That was Reid and Pelosi.

To fault Dean for the Washingtonians "not fighting back" is like faulting me for whatever your mother might have done wrong to you. You're fighting the wrong person. Or, actually, it's much WORSE because in your case what that attitude is doing for you is causing you to cut off your nose to spite your face. The Washingtonians aren't hurt a bit by your lack of funding of the DNC -- in fact, they probably relish it since I begin to see they WANT Dean to fail. Who's hurt is you and me and Dean and all of us across the nation who want to see the Party become something worthy of the name again.

I really believe that the party "leaders" put Dr. Dean in the position as DNC Chair just to try and keep the "core" from totally abandoning the party.

They weren't that smart, actually. They fought hard against him, putting up all SORTS of candidates to run against him, and begging a few others who wouldn't bite. But Dean worked hard and had already won the hearts of many. He won because and only because the grassroots voting members of the DNC (the delegates from all 50 states) VOTED HIM IN. It was a coup of the grassroots over the monied DLC interests.


But, he has no real power. If he "fails" at fund-raising, as they hope, they can say that it just proves that the path of the DLC is the right one. I am not falling for that.

Well, you fell for exactly half of it, the half that's actually true, this half. Soo, you yourself are in position to recognize how YOU are hurting his interests AND yours by withholding your financial support.