Mehlman yes....Dean no...

[ClusterFreak]

....just wondering why (and when I say ..."just wondering why....", I am indeed :sarcasm: ) we get a face-full of Mehlman's mug all over 24/7, yet no Howard Dean??? I guess Howard would rather stay mum about Rovegate, huh?

[Goldeneye]

1. Mehlman was the only guy the repugs could get to

go to bat for them. No one wants to get anywhere near the sinking ship Bush. That's why he was everywhere. He was the only one. Eventually they dug up Hatch and Blunt. But very few repugs want to get anywhere near this thing. Democrats had lots and lots of people out on the front lines.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. The WH can't be caught defending Rove

The task goes to their surrogates in the RNC and the right wing media.

[Blasphemer]

8. True... I think it's good that Mehlman is the "one"

You don't get more partisan than the RNC chair and people will lump his defense with the entire party. This thing tarnishes all of them. The average (non-fundie) following this story has to wonder why no Republicans seems to care about our National Security being compromised by the White House. That's the thing that's killing them. In the public eye, Dems have always been stronger on Domestic issues while the GOP is the Defense party. Eroding that myth is a very important consequence of this investigation.

[liberaliraqvet26]

2. mehlman doesn't have to be reelected...

dean is probably seeing where the case will lead, sometimes he has spoken to prematurely in the past.

[Larkspur]

3. Dean is busy rebuilding the Dem Party.

He stays in Washington DC only 1 or 2 days a week. The other days he's traveling to states to meet with local Dem leaders and rally rank-and-file Dems, especially in "Red" states.

And during those state visits, Dean has been attacking Bush on Rove. He's his July 18, 2005 statement http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/07/dean_bush_must.php

[Larkspur]

4. Self-delete

[Teaser]

6. Dean's working

Read the news over the past 2 days. You'll find out what Dean is up to.

[napi21]

7. Howard is busy speaking in all 50 states and promoting Democrats!

He doesn't need to be on TV all the time! If I remember right, there was a quote published the other day where he did say Rove should be fired. It was a phone interview I think, and he was on his way to a gathering in Iowa.

There are OTHER Dems that have been handling this TV stuff. Please let Howard work for getting the Dems back in power as he said he would do.

[globalvillage]

11. I saw him tonight in Pittsburgh

He was awesome! Great crowd and lots of love for the Dr. He really does make a great chairman.

One of these for Dr Dean
:loveya:

[Mojambo]

9. Because Dean is doing his job

I bet Mehlman wishes he could too.

[ClusterFreak]

10. No doubt....he's a busy guy....I get that.

....and Mehlman's pretty much the only person the Repukes can get to show up everywhere and give a staunch Rove defence....

....just thinking though that of the Democrat/liberal people brought in to comment on all of this...there's really been no one with Dean's straight shooting appeal. But everyone's point here is well taken.

[qanda]

12. I hate to say this but the last thing this needs is Dean

Then it will become all about what Dean said and how he said it. By the time the media and the Republicans got finished, the public would be asking, "Rove who?"