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Since DLC candidates hold 2/3rds of the votes in the national polls, and Dean hovering around ten to fifteen percent at the highest, and not all Dean voters will stay at home if Dean is not the monination becasue the party decides it wants a candidate who ACTUALLY has a chance of winning, and does not want the same McCartthy and McGovern fiasco's they have facesd by going with a one trick pony candidate, it doubt that the reaction to the DLC taking over and deciding what the best winning strategy will be. As a matter of fact, if the strategy provides a winner, Dean will face a similar situation as Jimmy Carter's "Jimmy Who?" phenomenon. Only it will be the day after the election that people wil be saying "Howard Who?"
Dean is largely responsible for this himself. HE started the dirty politics, attacking the DLC and all of the other candidates, the democratic groups and leaders who provided large sums to all of his campaigns for governor, and watched his back after he signed the Civil Union Act, from the attacks of people like Ruth Dwyer, and groups like "Take Back Vermont" who were raising enormous sums from fundamentalist and other anti-gay organizations. Dean repayed the party's years of loyalty to him with attack after attack, and if they decide to not support him, but use the same kind of politics to keep Dean out, it is only just.
Looking at the polls, in which 100 percent of all of the people polled are listed, between 64 and 70 percent of the votes are going to DLC candidates, and the two who are not, Mosely Braun and Sharpton are not likely tothrow their support to Dean, when they see that the largest percentage of the voters still support the DLC, and not Deans attacks on it. Mosely Braun is still a DLC loyalist, and Sharpton will support those who thinks he can get the most support from and from the stance most likely to win. Deans stance on the death penalty, guns, drug treatment, his willingness to cut social programs that help those at the lower economic stratas and so on is not likely to win him favors from the black community. So all that is left in the national polls is about 15 percent undecided voters, and all of the undecided will not FLOCK to Dean. Which means the DLC candidates will control 80 percent of the vote at the very least, and Dean 20 at the most. Perhaps 25 if he is EXTREMELY fortunate. Dean decided to attack both sides, and attack his on party harder than Bush. Bush is going to peg Dean as a liberal, because Dean has been so vague as to what he is, that his enemies can call him whatever they like, and they will be very likely beleived. Dean can be accused of wanting to raise their taxes by repealing Bush's tax cuts, and now that he has backed away from his "You can have Health Insurance OR Tax cuts' speech that he gave about only two months ago, and still talks about repealing the cuts but having to wait for the "INCREMENTAL HEALTH CARE" Deans days are numbered.
He attacked the other cnadidates, the DLC and no one from the democratic party is going to come to his rescue. The DLC is ging to keep EVERY candidate in the race, keep the DLC percentage of the vote over 50 percent, and then select ONE of the candidates other than Dean to be the nominee. They will discuss it and make concessions to those who will back away and give their support and delgates to the one candidate the DLC thinks has the best shot of beating Bush.
Dean made his own bed...now he can sleep uneasily in it.
Like I used to tell my staff members when they asked me why I was so good, and intelligent a supervisor and not a tyrant. I told them that it was because I am smart enough to know I am not smart enough to outsmart 5 people who have decided they are going to get me, much less 35.
Deans arrogance and the arrogance of is supporters that he is smart and tough enough to take on everyone he has abused is the most powerful weapon that Deans opponenets have.
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