Dean Dean Dean Dean Dean!

[Egnever]

Hah I love it!

the more you say it the more you realize this is our next president!

My thanks to every single poster who mentions him in thier pathetic attempts to smear him.

Still this late in the race they fail to realize that every single petty attack only brings more people to his side. Keep chanting his name you will get him elected for sure !

[LittleDannySlowhorse]

1. Even the people who hate him are unwittingly helping him

His name is out there all the time. He could very well get votes just for the name recognition alone.

Thanks everybody!

[meow mix]

2. i prefer, commander in chief general clark

that has a nice ring =)

[dajabr]

4. Uber Alles!

Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?

[JVS]

7. So eine Frecheit wird nicht hier geduldet!

Hier sagen wir, "Ist alles in Ordnung?"

[Phelan]

11. Yeah why don't we use the language of one of the most liberal

nations out there today and continue on comparing it to facism... great and while we are at it, lets also have our anti-military bias distort our view of reality.

Und uebrigens war Adolf nur ein Corporal.

[dajabr]

12. You got something against Falco?

http://www.derkommissar.com/

[JVS]

21. Liberal, maybe by American standards.

In my experience Germany fluctuates between center-left and center-right, politically. There is also a nice dollop of authoritarianism, not in a negative sense per se, but the rules are definitely made to be obeyed and will be strongly enforced.

[JVS]

5. Yeah, nothing says fun like a head of state being addressed as General!

:eyes:

[burning bush]

6. We Have No King But Ceasar!

crucify him...

[hellhathnofury]

9. That's redundant. He can't be general and commander and chief at the same

time.

[Printer70]

26. When I think Clark, I think "more of the same"

He should junk the meaningless slogans he's got and go with what's really going to happen- "more of the same".

[candy331]

3. Deans the man! I am glad he is ready

to fight back. Since he (can't win, unelectable, can't beat Bush) according to the pundits creeping from under every rock he may as well go down scrapping.


Dean 04

[mmonk]

8. At first, I thought Kerry had started a thread.

[hellhathnofury]

10. Poor Kerry.

O8)

[Egnever]

14. Pfft!

Just for fun I went and counted on the first page here at the time of my count Dean was named 17 times in 37 threads! Gotta love all the people puting his name out there for him.

No wonder Kerry felt the way he did.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

13. Only people with severe cases of Cognitive Dissonance. The sensible

ones are running th eother way....

[Egnever]

15. you mean people like Gore?

?????????????????

[DEM FAN]

16. Howard Dean. The Next President Of The United States.

;-)

[Dr.Phool]

17. I certainly hope so

'cause if the shrub steals another election, I'm moving to Costa Rica.

[Adjoran]

18. Don't ice the champagne yet

There are surprisingly few delgates at stake in Iowa and NH; it's mostly about buzz. Strong Dean wins in both will give him strong momentum, and if he can sustain it for a week and win several of the Feb 3 events, probably only one challenger can survive - if that many.

Gephardt must win Iowa, or he will have to fold his tent. He leads in MO, his home state, of the Feb 3 contests, and is competitive in SC and OK. But he won't be able to generate enough cash to compete even there if he loses Iowa. If he wins Iowa, that gives him momentum and money for SC (he won't waste time in NH) and the other Feb 3 states. He could end up the leader in delegates after Feb 3, which would translate into a lot of free media.

Kerry can spend his own money if he fares poorly in Iowa or doesn't outperform his dismal poll numbers in NH. But he is well known and liked in NH, and led there before Dean's surge caught him flatfooted last year. So a good showing in Iowa might cause some of his neighbors in NH to return to his camp.

Clark gets a free pass until Feb 3. He was never expected to be able to compete in Iowa or NH, given his late entry. His strength in NH is gravy. He has a national constituency and will survive through Super Tuesday, unless one of the others shows so much unexpected strength as to become the "consensus anti-Dean."

Edwards is an attractive candidate, but he will need a big surprise early to continue. His positive, moderate message and his pragmatic progressivism have been drowned in the cacaphony of ten different candidates debating.

Lieberman probably can't make it to Super Tuesday, barring extraordinary events. The others may strive on, but they were never in contention.

The point is that there are a lot of delegates to be selected and a lot of unexpected events between now and anyone clinching the nomination.

[Egnever]

22. Wow!

I really didn't expect someone to actually do some thinking in this thread. I just logged on here and was struck by how many Dean this Dean that posts there were and the old Kerry quote poppied into my head.

I agree nothing is written in stone yet its purely wishful thinking on my part.

It will continue to be interesting to watch it pan out. I personally think dean will wrap it up very quickly. He just has organization nationwide that the others cant even dream of matching. The few early states while highly publicized are also the hardest fought and most concentrated on by all. After that they just sort of hope for the best for the most part. Dean on the other hand has been building his network nation wide for months now many states have turnkey operations practically waiting for the official campaign to step in. It will be the later races where he really dominates I think especially in caucus states as they are less subject to the blowing political wind of the week.

For instance here in Nevada a somewhat late state and a caucus state his organization is unmatched by anyone else. The record turnout at a caucus in Nevada was 250 people and we already have way more than that committed to going. In all likelihood we will own the caucus here.

I expect this same situation will be repeated time and again in many of the later states where the media focus is not so intense nor is the candidates presence.

Anyway cool post I liked your rundown and can see any of it being possible it should be great fun to watch the next few months with plenty of nail biting for all!

[revcarol]

23. In Nevada? Where Dean wanted to ship the nuclear waste?

WOW-teflon.

[Egnever]

25. No thats Texas

I can understand the confusion though. Just curious where would you suggest we ship it? Or do you prefer the scatter it all over the country shotgun approach?

[bitchkitty]

19. President Dean -

music to my ears! I love this man, I love this man, I LOVE THIS MAN! And the more I hear about her, the more I love Mrs. Dr. Dean!

[slinkerwink]

20. for example, we signed up 2,500 Dean supporters today!

[ThirdWheelLegend]

24. Petty attacks are one thing, right of center policies are what gets me

Oh sure I cannot disagree that there are a lot of silly anti-Dean threads. What I will not dismiss are the misleading words and actions of Dean against other candidates. His past record.

And most of all the fact that his policy positions are to the right of center and IMHO not very Democratic at all..

NAFTA, Patriot Act, death penalty, illegal occupation of Iraq, UHInsurance.

Sure civil unions are neat, but civil unions do not a Progressive make.

[quaker bill]

27. Your understanding of the center is misinformed.

But I do agree that he is well right of Dennis. But then it seems that about 97 to 98 percent of democrats are also right of Dennis.

[ThirdWheelLegend]

28. I am not sure I agree.

If I don't understand the center can you please help me?
We agree that Bush is way right of the center?
Then similar policy stances to Bush are right of the center? Yes, No?

TWL

[killbotfactory]

29. DEAN dean DEAN dean DEAN dean DEAN!

What should we call him...
"DR. PRESIDENT DEAN" or
"MR. PRESIDENT DEAN M.D."?

[edzontar]

30. Dean will win...that is certain!

thanks for the upbeat thread.

[Skinner]

31. This is inflammatory.

Skinner
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