The persistence of Howard Dean

[Larkspur]

Certitude, combativeness have brought
Democratic front-runner success so far
http://www.msnbc.com/news/986258.asp?0cv=NA01

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...then came the 2002 elections in which the party saw its candidates for the most part outmaneuvered on tax cuts and Iraq. Even those Democrats who voted with Bush, such as Missouri Sen. Jean Carnahan, were defeated.

In the wake of that defeat, Dean, it seemed, visualized the Democratic voter as self-doubting, hesitant and in despair.
Perhaps the Republicans were smarter strategists or played dirtier, this voter might have thought, but perhaps, also, the majority of voters didn’t agree with the Democratic orthodoxy on Social Security, taxes and abortion.

By talking of the need to be proud of being Democrats again, Dean ministered to this voter’s bottled-up rage.
While not mentioning Dean or any other Democratic contender by name, centrist Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., warned in July, “We have an important choice to make: Do we want to vent, or do we want to govern?”

Dean’s answer: Vent first, then govern. You’ll never get to the White House unless you uncork some of that bottled-up rage, seemed to be Dean’s riposte.
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[Jackpine Radical]

1. What a great line:

Vent first, then govern.

[Punkingal]

2. This is a dupe.

Please see:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=108&topic_id=70714

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