So tell me about this Hindery guy who might be chair?

[madfloridian]

Is he pretty good? Would he do a good job?
http://www.opednews.com/burgwin_112504_DNC.htm

SNIP...."But No…the party regulars barged in and took over and VOILA… Another 4 years of the scariest administration this country has ever seen. Another 4 years of Dick Cheney’s war that will last forever. Another 4 years of running roughshod over our natural resources and water and air quality. 4 more years of if-it-looks-like-a-meadow-put-an-oil-well-on-it. Good work guys. We’ll be lucky if we even have elections in 2008.

And I have never been more convinced of this than when I read, “Former presidential candidate Howard Dean has called party regulars, expressing his interest in the DNC job. Other Democrats interested in the job or being asked to pursue it include… Leo Hindery, former chairman of the Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network LLC, a New York-based sports cable channel that televises New York Yankees' baseball games…. Former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., said Monday that the Democratic Party is fortunate that Hindery wants the job, describing the former chairman and CEO of AT&T Broadband as a successful New York City businessman who understands the Republican-leaning regions of the country.’ He can be a unifier and be a neutral broker,’ Kerrey said in a telephone interview.” (From an article by Mike Glover of the AP.)
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/elections/article.adp?id=20041122143209990007&cid=946

[PassingFair]

1. My gut reaction is...

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[hippiechick]

5. I second that icon

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[Cheswick2.0]

2. corporate Democracy...no thanks

Bob Kerry has turned into a real DLC suck up huh?

[madfloridian]

3. "understands Republican-leaning regions." Not a word about Democrats.

That says it all to me.

[regnaD kciN]

13. My thoughts exactly...

As usual, the mantra of the Democratic LOSERship Council is that we need candidates, officials, etc., who "understand Republican-leaning regions," while Democratic-leaning regions are ignored and disrespected, even by our own party leadership.

Personally, those credentials are a good reason why Mr. Hindrey shouldn't even be considered for the post.

People should remember that, for the past thirty-two years, Democrats have tried to move themselves to the center, while Republicans have tried to move the center to themselves. Guess who's winning...

[janx]

4. I DARE them.

I called my sister-in-law tonight. Usually I am the one so emphatic about Dean; this time, it was her turn.

The language that she used to describe the Dem party leadership was not kind, and she was born and raised Dem and has been a party supporter ever since she was able to vote.

She didn't know about this turn of events, but she did know about the possibility of Dean's being elected to the DNC position. Her basic message was that if he didn't get the position or the nomination for the presidency later, she was through with the Dem party. (And she wasn't necessarily a Deaniac to begin with; previously, she more or less went with the "party line.")

Now she is very angry.

When I expressed my reservations about DFA versus DNC, she told me that the country needs this, needs it so badly, that the DNC must go for Dean or the country will suffer.

And I had to agree with her.

I think that both she and my brother, for a time, thought that I was an idealist for supporting Dean and speaking out the way I did. But her own mother was very taken with Dean; and I have to say that my mother, and old Goldwater Republican, would have been as well. I miss her and wish she were here to see what is going on. (She stopped voting Republican when Reagan came in and ushered in the fundies.)

Now there is no question. My brother and sister-in-law see the pragmatic side of things and realize that I was not some idealogue, but that I was looking at things in a reasonable and practical sense. I have another brother who saw what happened also.

[Cheswick2.0]

8. good news Janx

I am glad to hear so many in your family coming around.

[PassingFair]

10. I will never say "I told you so"

How nice that your loved ones have come around. When the 'pubs begin to lose their jobs and homes in greater numbers, maybe they will wake up. I will have no sypmpathy for my brother when his 3 count 'em 3 teenage boys are scooped up for this immoral war. I will feel bad for the boys, but my bro and his wife felt that the prez could do no wrong.

Everyone else, including my other brother who is married to a fundie (who by the way voted for Kerry and convinced her family and 1/2 the tiny congregation they attend to vote for Kerry)has their eyes wide open by now.

I have no pity for the nazi-like mentality that would support *.

[a new day]

6. I agree with the rest

He's a "Democrat" who wants us all to be Republicans. Then we can all talk about what we remember of the polar ice-cap while sitting in a doctors office in France with our life partner sipping a latte waiting to take our niece home from RU486 treatment, secure in the knowledge that our stock dividends are non-taxable.

[NoPasaran]

7. I'll join in the chorus

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I cannot understand the mentality of the DLC/corporatist crowd who have nothing but a record of failure after failure and no strategy beyond doing more of the same. How much fun can it be to be the leader of a team that always loses?

[Cheswick2.0]

9. it may not be fun but it is profitable

I am sure they are paid very well.

[NoPasaran]

11. Surely winning would pay just as well?

[ibegurpard]

12. More big--business ties?

With the Republicans' K-Street project walling up the door to corporate money for Democrats? How blind. Bad idea. We need to look in new directions.