Even ESPN's TMQ has donated $$ to Dean! Also, Dean has own B&J Ice Cream

[Hawkeye-X]

Cowboys' win better than ice cream

By Gregg Easterbrook
Page 2 columnist


With the Howard Dean bandwagon rumbling toward carrying two, three or perhaps even four states in the 2004 election, everybody wants on board. Time and Newsweek both had Dean on the cover. The Tuesday Morning Quarterback political action committee, TMQ-PAC, just covered its bases by donating the legal maximum to the Dean campaign. (Note: under campaign finance law, the "legal maximum" varies between $2,000 and unlimited, depending on your lawyer. Also, Federal Election Commission documents show that hundreds of Vermont cows have already donated the hard-money maximum to Dean's committee.)

And Ben & Jerry's ice cream has named an ice-cream sundae after Dean.

The Ben & Jerry's pro-Dean sundae is called Maple Powered Howard. Dean supporters have begun to chant "Maple Powered Howard!" at the rallies of other candidates, trying to drown out the opposition. You won't find Maple Powered Howard at your local outlet unless you live in Vermont, however; it is not an auspicious sign for the candidate's prospects that even Ben & Jerry's thinks no one outside Dean's home state would want a product bearing his name. And Ben & Jerry's does not even list the existence of Maple-Powered Howard on its inventory of flavors. Perhaps it worries about other candidates demanding equal-time flavors.

Wacky Presidential Candidate Ice Cream Flavors

[Enraged American]

1. Ah corporate-friendly Dean with the ice cream deal n/t

[liberalnurse]

2. Do you know if theywill be selling tha Dean ice cream

in our local grocery stores? I sure hope so, I love all of Ben& Jerry's flavors. The quality is excellent too.

[Hawkeye-X]

3. Article said only in VT you can get the ice cream...

I know someone in Vermont, and would ask him to send me an overnight dry-iced can of Maple-Powered Dean.

Hawkeye-X

[liberalnurse]

5. You are so lucky.

I think I will contact the Vt. store...then see if my local gourmet store will order it for us. You know, one of our Dayton Dean Meet-ups are held at one of their stores. Dorothy Lane Market, Springboro branch...

(they are online too)

This is a good idea! :bounce:

[babzilla]

8. It's not an ice cream flavor

it's a sundae recipe that the Ben & Jerry's Ice cream parlors serve. The recipe was created in honor of his announcement for president.

Just like everything else in the campaign, you have the power to make one yourself. The recipe is below.

Still, not everything can go as planned, even in the best campaigns. Last week, Dean's campaign touted a new ice cream sundae that Ben & Jerry's planned to sell in their Vermont stores in honor of Dean. "Maple Powered Howard" is a combination of vanilla ice cream, maple-flavored whipped cream, maple syrup and walnuts.

It sounds delicious -- except that Ben Cohen, who with Jerry Greenfield founded the ice cream company in Burlington, made a point Friday of announcing that he's backing Dennis Kucinich in the 2004 Democratic primary, not his fellow Vermonter.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/23/dean.campaign/

[liberalnurse]

9. Thank you.....

It sounds delicious. I'm craving carbs right now any ways.... but since I can't go buy it then I'll have no excuse to break my program.

I'm following the Sugar Busters Plan. Healthy complex carbs....

[dajabr]

6. B&J served it for 1 day only...

The day Dean annouced. I presume it will return on innauguration day...

[babzilla]

4. The Ben of Ben & Jerry's has endorsed Kucinich

As far as corporate-friendly, Ben & Jerry's is quite a progessive corporation.

[twilight]

12. yeah Ben Cohen is his name

and you are right, he has endorsed Dennis Kucinich NOT Dean! :D



:kick:

[zoidberg]

7. I thought Easterbrook was bashing Dean...

But maybe I was reading satire where none existed.

[Robbien]

10. Don't know if this was posted here yet or not

But the Ben of Ben & Jerry's had a twelve foot cuttout made of Whistle Ass where his pants are on fire, then bought a truck to drive displaying this huge cuttout through different cities.

Liar, Liar, pants on fire

I joined his activist website also.

[twilight]

11. Dean and his ice cream geeeee

<And Ben & Jerry's ice cream has named an ice-cream sundae after Dean.>

Yep, thats reason enough right there to vote for him, he has an ice cream named after him. Gimme a break pleazzzze! :puke: