I have to wonder if Dean's strategy

[XemaSab]

isn't to make brash statements so he gets invited to explain himself on national TV thereby gaining a platform from which to air his altogether reasonable and well-thought-out worldview.

Thoughts? Ideas?

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. No clue, but that would be nice.

Just waiting for him to drop the treason, crimes against humanity, war criminal bomb that needs to be dropped. Come on Howard, you can do it!

[mapatriot]

2. Dean's Strategy

I don't know if it's a "strategy" or not, but I agree with pretty much everything he says - about time the dems had the guts to face it.

Is the republican party pretty much an extension of the white, right wing christian movement in this country? Of course!! I don't care if Ken Mehlman is jewish. They're carrying the water for the christian coalition.

Are republicans, for the most part, representing the interests of the upper class, high income, lots of family money gang in this country? You bet!

Biden and Richardson are too cowardly to join the front lines of the fight, so let them stand with the rear guard and collect the crumbs. Neither of them will ever be president.

[XemaSab]

6. I agree with everything he says too

but I've got to wonder if the outspokeness isn't less a happy accident than a strategic plan.

For months he was doing only small, local media, and in the last few weeks he's both been going national and making "controversial" statements. "Controversial" covering all the ground between "republicans are mostly white Christians" to "republican policy makers have no clue what it's like to actually work for a living."

God forbid the man should say something like "most of the hijackers were Saudis," they'd run him out of town.

[BigBearJohn]

3. I definitely think he is smart enough to have developed that strategy

I was thinking the same thing. He's got the Republicans
running around defending themselves all over the place.
It's nice to put THEM on the defensive for a change!!!

"Mommy! Mommy! Deanie said bad words about me!"

[Larkspur]

4. Dean's strategy is to go and stay on the offenseive against Repukes

His statements, like the sentence from his speech to the Take Back American Conference, were intentionally taken out of context by the Media. Anyone who attended that speech or listened to it from the TBA website later on knows that Dean was referring to Republican lawmakers, not Republican voters.

The Media also has it's own agenda -- ratings and profits. Remember, Faux News has lost 58% of its viewership over the last year. CNN has also lost a significant portion of viewship, so they may be hoping that exploiting Dean's words can pump them back up.

However, Dean is doing a good job of taking advantage of the Media by staying on the offensive against Republicans when he is invited by the Media to "explain" his "controversial" comments.

[theboss]

5. It served him well in the primaries...

Oh wait... no it didn't.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Playing it safe worked great for Kerry and Gore.

But, Kerry did bag a ferocious goose while attempting to pander to the rednecks.

[XemaSab]

9. You ever been chased by a goose?

They're scary.

Kerry saved us from that goose.... never forget.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. To get on the news you have to make news.

Everybody whines about the MSM's non coverage of Dems. So, instead of whining Howie's making news by actually saying something. Unlike most of the rest of the ever-so-cautious politicians trying to please their corporate masters.

Good for him. As far as he goes, which is not nearly far enough.

[Politicub]

10. Perhaps

It's refreshing to go from pink tutu dems to dems with fire in the belly like Dean.

There is no great reward without great risk. Dean has my utmost support. If the Dems take back the Senate majority in the mid term elections and the funding comes from a small donor base, the Democratic party will be changed for the better.

[corbett]

11. Running For President Again

Remember the virtual election which MoveOn ran in the months after 9/11? Dean won by a landslide and the web servers crashed in the process.

The Dean/Trippi machine was a real powerhouse. I supported Dean for DNC chair and think he's doing a wonderful job. Specifically, he's doing basically the same thing he did in 2003: he's running a campaign but the election he's trying to win is different. That's all. He still is trying to represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/50states/index.html

[us1]

12. Howard keep it up

Howard keep it up