Howard Dean and his fucking 50 state strategy idea

[redstate_democrat]

Look where the hell it got us. :rant:





:bounce:




:evilgrin:

[speedoo]

1. Yeah, how about that dumbass, huh?

:rofl:

[redstate_democrat]

2. Sheesh. Remind everyone never to listen to that guy ever again.

What were we thinking?




:evilgrin:

[The Wielding Truth]

3. We should not forget the amazing work he is doing.

:applause: :kick: :bounce:

[Trajan]

4. Fucking brilliant ....

Remind me to give that man a huge 'YAHOOOOOOOIIIIII" next time I see him ...

[redstate_democrat]

5. Yep. Love Dean!!

[Colobo]

6. Dean and Obama have changed our party for good.

[benddem]

7. He'll

always be my first choice. That is one really smart man!

[mcctatas]

8. He is my new crush....

Clive Owen can kiss my ass!

[CreekDog]

9. but but the thread yesterday said Obama was giving up the 50-state strategy

that poster was a stupid ass. sorry. i'm gettin' mad at the stupiditeh.

[MaineDem]

21. That's very possible

There is no funding for the 50-state strategy after November. I hope Obama and the new DNC Chair continue it.

I didn't see yesterday's thread. I'll go look for it.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

10. Yeah - Rush and Hannity wuz right when they said picking him as DNC chair would doom the party

he was supposed to keep us confined to the 'leftwing fringe' and make the Democrats look like 'Kooks" and give us a permanent majority.

we heard that mocking everywhere for weeks.
not so funny for them now, I guess.
Dean's the greatest DNC chair ever.

I'd go into Carville's attacks, but i'll give him a pass for tonight, as he's been a pretty good Obama supporter in the general.

[amitten]

11. I wanted Dean for prez. This is good enough, I guess.

What with him basically saving the world and all.

LOVES me some Dean!

[dkf]

12. Howard Dean will always be my first political hero.

:loveya:

[Mad_Dem_X]

33. Mine too.

He has really turned our party around. I love him!

[Egnever]

37. Mine as well

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

13. Truly the unsung hero of this year's campaign

Gov. Dean would make a fine HHS secretary, would he not?

A Great Democrat.

[JimDandy]

14. Yes he would! Leavitt has deliberately wrecked that department as much as he could.

[blm]

41. True - many Dems still don't understand that elections are won in the years BEFORE election day

and Dean is the first party chair in over a decade who has worked to REBUILD PARTY INFRASTRUCTURE in those states that had been left to collapse by previous party chairs. THAT is where the votes were disallowed, purged, and suppressed state by state so neither Gore or Kerry could get the votes counted that they earned.

[dansolo]

56. Absolutely - that could be his next great accomplishment

He has done all that he can do as DNC chair. Hopefully he will leave the party chairmanship in good hands. I think that HHS Secretary would be the ideal position for him.

[dmr]

15. Yea, he's a very bad leader alright, but

I have a huge - HUGE - HUGE hug for him!

What can you do? We can't let those kooks, the fringe net-roots anywhere near Democratic politics. They'll ruin it for all of America!

:evilgrin:

[judasdisney]

16. You're wrong if you think

You're wrong if you think the DLC will give up on trying to discredit Dean & his strategy.

You're also wrong if you think, like George Soros, "Reaganism is dead" just because it has visibly fucked us all up for a generation.

The DLC and the Neocons are dead-enders, fundamentalists, and terrorists who will make it their life's mission to destroy (a) Dean, (b) Obama, and (c) any and all sanity.

[CarbonDate]

20. Reaganism was basically the reanimation of the previously discredited....

...Harding/Coolidge/Hoover economics.

It's not dead. It's never dead. But maybe, like last time, it'll be fifty years before it rears its ugly head again.

[judasdisney]

22. Guess again.

There are $1.14 Quadrillion dollars in the Derivatives Market bubble.

This bubble has not popped yet.

The total GDP for the entire planet does not meet $1 Quadrillion.

When Obama is President, and the U.S. dollar (and all global currencies) collapse as worthless paper, guess who will be blamed?

Do you think the Corporate Media will blame George Bush?

Do you think the Corporate Media will suggest an FDR-type remedy?

Do you think common dumbass "low-information citizens" will make distinctions?

Do you think Obama will issue any blame whatsoever or point fingers in an "unclassy" way?

Or don't you believe that there are $1.14 Quadrillion in non-existent dollars being traded at this moment by international banks?

Warren Buffett: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2817995.stm

http://jutiagroup.com/2008/07/24/global-derivatives-market-now-valued-at-114-quadrillion/

The Corporate Media will decry Obama, issue "reassessments" of the "underestimated" Bush Era, and attempt nostalgia for Bush's "Golden Age".

[Cosmocat]

24. Yeah ...

as the last posts noted, these snakes always seem to rear their ugly head - the message is SIMPLE and wrapped in nationalism, and it took it's COMPLETE and UTTER failure to wake people up this time, I mean, things had to have gone from pretty darn good under Clinton to pretty Fin bad under Bush for the sheeple to get past the fast food message it gets packaged in.

One hope here, though is this - it has alwasy been successfully delivered when it was able to solidify WHITE america into a large enough voting block win. Demographics are exponentially changing in a manner that it is going to be harder and harder for a majority to arise from just the votes of white americans.

[Avalux]

46. Well - aren't you a big party pooper.

This is a feel good thread; take your gloom and doom somewhere else. :wtf:

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[4lbs]

17. Let this also be a reminder that just because a candidate yells "YEAAAHHHH!!!!" loudly at a rally...

doesn't mean they've suddenly lost all knowledge and that their support should dry up, no matter how much the MSM tries to laugh at it.

[Borgnine]

18. I was so happy the day Dean became DNC chair.

I knew then that after 2004 it was our only hope of turning things around. First we had to change the party, then we could change the country.

[sniffa]

19. We're going to California, and Texas

YEEEEEAAARRRGGGHH

[polichick]

23. They (msm, DLC) took him down because they recognized what he was starting...

The Obama campaign is the direct result of Dean's grassroots movement ~ it's a new world baby!

THANK YOU HOWARD! :patriot:

[Mad_Dem_X]

36. I totally agree.

The MSM was afraid of him and what he was trying to do.

[thoughtcrime1984]

25. Howard is great!

I was proud to be able to shake his hand a couple of weeks ago.:thumbsup:

[lojasmo]

26. This electoral cycle is Dean's legacy.

My hero.

[janx]

38. I've been thinking about that too. n/t

[FogerRox]

27. Its called Deans revenge, executed with military precision.

[Sorceress]

28. Yep, I don't care what anyone says, I will always love my Deanie!

[janx]

29. kick

[GreenInNC]

30. Dean helped bring me back to the Dems

Back in 2005 I was a national co-chair of the Green Party and we were still fighting over the 2004 election and the massive 1% of the vote that Cobb and Nader got combined. I was being called a racist, cracker, redneck and some other choice words by members of my party and we had state parties threatening to leave the party. I had just about had enough.

Then came along Howard Dean and Jerry Meek (our state chair here in NC)and after listening to them, I felt like I could make the move back to the party and I did. I am now very active in my county and state party and went to Denver for the convention. I had the chance to

I left the Dems in 1986 after running for county commish in the small mtn. county in NC where I was going to college. I didn't get much support from the county party and had had enough. Over the next twenty years I remained an unaffliated voter and eventially found the Greens, rising through the ranks to become national co-chair in 2004 and being the only elected Green in NC. I still work with my state and local Greens but as a national party, they don't have a chance.

[bbgrunt]

31. Dean is the MAN!

[iceman66]

32. We wouldn't be where we are without him!

Just look at the number of governorships we have won since Dean began this strategy.

[Peacetrain]

34. ~ROFL~.. and I was getting ready to come in here and jump ugly with you

You got me!!!! :evilgrin:

[rniel]

35. We should've listened to Hannity

and never elected him :sarcasm:

[Lugnut]

39. Yeeeaaarrrggghhh! n/t

[Yuugal]

40. oldie but a goodie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwto2s_FbnI

[Ian_rd]

42. TRUE. Thank Dean! But expect another post-election article crediting Rahm Emmanuel ...

... like after the election in 2006. What a bunch of horseshit.

[madfloridian]

43. This time they are already crediting Harold Ickes with the win

because of his private database.

They don't even mention VoteBuilder, the DNC database being used and replenished by the states.

[tbyg52]

48. Of cooooooooooooooooorse!

The "right people" must always get the credit. :grr:

[Eurobabe]

44. Yearrrgh!!!

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[Whisp]

45. the doctor knew what was ailing us. :)

go Howard. love the guy.

[mzmolly]

47. I think about Dean and his contribution in this regard

often. :kick: and R.

[Cha]

49. I love Howard Dean! Always have Always

will:loveya: :toast::patriot::kick::party:

[cynatnite]

50. The goofiest mofo is also the fucking smartest guy in the room...

I cringe at the thought of where we'd be were it not for Dr. Dean.

[chicagoexpat]

51. yeah... & if Paul Begala & the Clintonistas had their say, they'd a canned Dean 2 years ago

http://loomisnews.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/the-clinton-party-becomes-the-democratic-party/

Note an old quote from Paul Begala (2006) denigrating Dean’s strategy:

"Yes, he’s in trouble, in that campaign managers, candidates, are really angry with him. He has raised $74 million and spent $64 million. He says it’s a long-term strategy. But what he has spent it on, apparently, is just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose. That’s not how you build a party."

Fast forward to 3 special election house seats in red districts -- DEAN WON'EM ALL!

[jhain]

52. I had a moment today

when I was wishing I could send him flowers. ( I think it was when I heard NORTH DAKOTA was in play) I love Howard.

[Erin Elizabeth]

53. I will always love him. Always.

He was my choice in 2004. My husband and I both were huge supporters. But I was very glad when he was chair of the DNC, I knew he'd do good things.

The man is just made of awesome.

[bermudat]

54. I have always been first and foremost a 'Deaniac'.

I hope Obama has a place for him in his (hopefully) new administration.

[fishwax]

55. k/r

:kick:

[Laelth]

57. k&r for the Good Doctor.

We owe him more than words can express.

:dem:

-Laelth

[OHDEM]

58. Any Democracy for America members here?

I'm a former Dean supporter and still go to meetups for his group!

[question everything]

60. To the White House...(nt)

[Overseas]

61. Yes I really love it. It makes me cry sometimes.

After so many years having the big old DLC write off all the red states, even as we knew there would be lots of people suffering that would support the Democratic platform.

Year after year they just let those red states fester.

So I have been thrilled with the 50 state strategy. Every step of the way.

Many many thanks.