Dean Favors 'Arrangement' Between Candidates Over Brokered Convention!!!!

[demo dutch]

In an interview taped yesterday for Inside City Hall, Howard Dean expressed opposition to a brokered convention if the Democratic primary contests fail to produce a candidate with enough delegates to win the nomination.

Dean said he thinks there will be a nominee by March or April, and if not, "we're going to have to get the candidates together and make some kind of an arrangement."

Here's the transcript from NY1:

"The idea that we can afford to have a big fight at the convention and then win the race in the next eight weeks, I think, is not a good scenario. So, after the primaries are over, the last primary is June 8th in Puerto Rico, there may be another state with there, and after that if we don't have a nominee, I think we will have a nominee sometime in the middle of March or April. But if we don't, then we're going to have to get the candidates together and make some kind of an arrangement. Because I don't think we can afford to have a brokered convention -- that would not be good news for either party."

http://www.observer.com/2008/dean-favors-arrangement-between-candidates-over-brokered-convention

[liberalnurse]

1. Yes, Dean is absolutely correct.

I was discussing this tonight on my way home with my daughter.

[msongs]

2. dean is wrong. Al Gore should accept the nomination nt

[ShadowLiberal]

3. Dean is right, the longer the primary goes on the harder it'll be for either Dem to win the WH

As much as some people here are dreaming of a brokered convention, it would be a HUGE disaster for our party no matter who won it, we'd be fighting among ourselves for the next 6+ months about who's the most liberal candidate, and therefore our best choice, while McCain makes his case for being the candidate acceptable to all of America.