Howard Dean Was Correct Re: 50 State Strategy, Take It From A GOP NH Activist !!!

[WillyT]

Now this article ain't about Dean, but...

Fergus Cullen: NH Republican soul-searching has already begun
By FERGUS CULLEN

Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006

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The Democrats also did an excellent job of spreading the Republican defense by filling their slate with more, and more credible, candidates the length of the ballot. Ten years ago, in 1996, Democrats failed to file candidates in six state Senate districts, or 25 percent of the total. This year they missed only one.

This means Republican incumbents in safe districts, such as Carroll County's Joe Kenney, have to play one-on-one defense, raising money and working harder than usual to assure their own re-election. Party activists have to invest energy retaining open seats that should be safe, such as the Salem-based Senate district, instead of looking to force turnovers in other places.

When a football team spreads the defense, some wide receivers get left uncovered and the team on offense has more chances to score touchdowns. That's what seems likely to happen in the Rochester-Somersworth based Senate district, for example, where Democrat state Rep. Jackie Cilley, a last-minute recruit, is favored to win an open seat that has been held by the Republicans.

And because the Republicans have to work to defend seats they should hold easily, the party's strongest challengers, such as Portsmouth area Senate candidate and state Rep. Dan Hughes, don't get the help they probably need for an upset.

The GOP's offense has amounted to three downs and punt since almost the start of the Lynch administration. Gubernatorial candidate Jim Coburn deserves the gratitude of his party, not the blame for what is about to happen. Coburn hasn't been able to count on even the most basic help from the Republican Party at the state level.

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Link: http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Fergus+Cullen%3A+NH+Republican+soul-searching+has+already+begun&articleId=c006ef0b-ff95-4183-b68b-ba30cfa65e4b

Firewall my ass, these creeps are in "everyman for himself" mode now!

Nice goin Dr. Dean!!!

:bounce::woohoo::bounce:

[Kurovski]

1. K&R(nt)

[sendero]

2. I've never had a moment's doubt..

... about Dr. Dean or his strategies.

May this just be the beginning :)

[upi402]

3. I might dig out some of his old stickers from the drawer

and put them back on my car... it pissed the neighbors off to no end last time. They stopped waving and stopping by for chats when I peeled back the mask and a Deaniac was underneath.

[madfloridian]

4. He said run everywhere, make them spend their money not sit on it.

I like it.

[luckyleftyme2]

5. They own the air -ways

This administration sand -bagged "Dean" in 20004,but he's gonna win this one,look out "dubya" your going down!

VOTE STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET IN NOVEMBER!
THROW THE TRASH OUT-4 DOWN AND 20 UNDER INVESTIGATION!
GO GO DEMOCRATS AND INDEPENDENTS!
VICTORY IN 2006!

[Cha]

8. No Mo' "Free Rides" for the

simian one..put that in your crack pipe, mark halperin, and smoke it. :smoke:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2512442

[BlooInBloo]

6. And all the Democrats who disparaged the strat should apologize....

... and then shut the fuck up.

(And there were a LOT of them.)

[Cha]

9. Not holding

breath!

[gully]

12. You are correct

sir.

[FogerRox]

13. Im waiting until Nov 8th....... 'till I rub thier noses in the big win...

[Cha]

7. The article doesn't have to be

About Dean..we know who started that strategy!

And this..

"No such help this cycle. State Democrat Party Chairwoman Kathy Sullivan has done a skillful job of milking the phone jamming controversy -- soon to enter its fifth year -- for the purpose of keeping the Republican Party perpetually insolvent. It's worked. Republican donors, worried their money will go to pay lawyers and not to help candidates, direct their donations elsewhere. The party depends on cash infusions from Presidential candidates just to pay the electric bill. A single staffer on loan from U.S. Sen. Bill Frist's political team has doubled state party personnel for the election season."

They shouldn't have done it if they didn't want it to be "MILKED"!

Bonus! :bounce:

[sarge43]

10. Wow, when the Union Leader says the Repugs are in deep

shit, they're up to their noses in it.

YES! Excellent Dr Dean. :bounce:

[althecat]

11. Tis elementary m'dear.....

The depths to which the DNC had fallen in not standing candidates in all races was what is remarkable.

I can't think of a major democratic nation on the planet where the main parties do not stand candidates in all races.. whether they have a chance or not. Apart from anything else it is a fantastic training ground for future candidates....

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. Absolutely!

[Leopolds Ghost]

15. DLC Dems like Rahm Emanuel and Clintons opposed the 50 state strategy

For one reason and one reason only: It might rescusitate the rural,
economic populist wing of the party that they have tried desperately
to kill.

DLC wanted to create an upper-midle class majority by strengthening
the upper middle class and playing on social issues -- Karl Rove's
turf. By abandoning the poor, especially poor people uninterested
in "social progressivism", they simultaneously drove those people
into the arms of the bigots and proved Karl Rove's contention that
America can and will survive quite comfortably with a large lower
middle class pitted against the upper middle class using divide
and rule tactics. DLC has no problem with that, it fits their class
prejudices.

The infusion of a few social conservative or economically regressive rural Dems is a small price to pay to reestablish a populist counterweight to the coastal DLC, who have managed to make America's
cities unlivable to the less affluent with mere encouragement from
the Republicans.