Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Thank you Howard Dean
Can anyone spot the logical flaw(s) in the latest spouting from Mr Dean:
I remain mystified as to why the Democratic Party thought it was a good idea to appoint this man as its chair. It may have sounded like a good move to energize the base, but the base is already energized, and the base alone cannot keep the party afloat financially. The numbers indicate why. Don't be deceived by the relative increase in DNC fundraising activity for the first 6 months of the post-general election cycle in 2005 as compared to 2001. Last year the DNC raised over 360 million dollars (see line 20). In fact, the DNC outdid the RNC, a monumentally shocking development in the wake of the ban on soft money. Meanhwile the RNC has doubled the amount of money the DNC has raised so far this year. So the DNC has gone from parity to the RNC to being outspent by 30 million dollars in six months under Dean's stewardship.
The Republicans didn't select Pat Buchanan to head the RNC after the 1996 election. Dean may not be as far on the fringe relatively speaking as Buchanan, but he's sure close. The Democrats made an incredibly foolish decision, one this Republican is even sorry they made. This man serves no value to either his party or this country.
Rant on Howard, you just make it so easy to pick on you.
The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is 'okay' to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is.Setting aside the fact that President Bush has not yet appointed a single person who has ever rendered a Supreme Court decision, Mr. Dean might be well surprised to discover that it was the liberals on the Court that in fact voted to uphold the taking in the Kelo case. You would think that the chairman of the Democratic party might be a little more up on the news, but then you would be expecting a little too much from the dumbest politician in America (sorry Nancy, even Howard's got you beat).
I remain mystified as to why the Democratic Party thought it was a good idea to appoint this man as its chair. It may have sounded like a good move to energize the base, but the base is already energized, and the base alone cannot keep the party afloat financially. The numbers indicate why. Don't be deceived by the relative increase in DNC fundraising activity for the first 6 months of the post-general election cycle in 2005 as compared to 2001. Last year the DNC raised over 360 million dollars (see line 20). In fact, the DNC outdid the RNC, a monumentally shocking development in the wake of the ban on soft money. Meanhwile the RNC has doubled the amount of money the DNC has raised so far this year. So the DNC has gone from parity to the RNC to being outspent by 30 million dollars in six months under Dean's stewardship.
The Republicans didn't select Pat Buchanan to head the RNC after the 1996 election. Dean may not be as far on the fringe relatively speaking as Buchanan, but he's sure close. The Democrats made an incredibly foolish decision, one this Republican is even sorry they made. This man serves no value to either his party or this country.
Rant on Howard, you just make it so easy to pick on you.
# posted by Paul Zummo : 8:41 AM
