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Home Front: Politix
Democrats: The fix is on
2008-04-03
Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean has a plan that will produce a nominee before his party's convention in August, avoiding what he fears could be a "really ugly and nasty" fiasco.

Democratic leaders have begun complaining he has bungled the party's nominating process and alienated voters because of his failure to engineer a political compromise in the DNC's ill-advised decision to strip Florida and Michigan of all its delegates. But Mr. Dean, whose polls show the party's internecine warfare is hurting its chances in November, has been talking to party bigwigs about a deal and now says the delegations will be seated before the nominating roll of the states is called.

The conventional wisdom says the battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will go all the way to the convention. But Mr. Dean wants it over well before that, and possibly before the last of the 10 remaining primaries are completed in June. ...
Posted by:Fred

#18  "Hot time in Denver this summer! YEEEAAAAAAGGGHH!"

Go for it, Howie! You can DO it!
Posted by: Pancho Elmeck8414   2008-04-03 18:31  

#17  You got it, swksvolFF. Under Howie's plan, the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl. They were ahead in the third quarter, after all.
Posted by: Steve White   2008-04-03 16:50  

#16  Hey, Dean and the Moveon people bought the Democratic party. It's theirs now, they'll do with it as they wish. And being blunt and rude and disqualifying people with no thought for the consequences is exactly what those Moveon people do. No horse-trading, we're going to scream our way to victory.
Posted by: gromky   2008-04-03 15:02  

#15  Howard Dean has a plan that will produce a nominee before his party's convention

I think the good plan requires to hire a really good sniper.
Posted by: JFM   2008-04-03 14:37  

#14  The scenario Mr. Dean and party leaders fear most is a bitter political floor fight in Denver that will deeply divide the party and send a message to the country that if the Democrats can't govern themselves, how can they govern the country?

Tell me bout it howie...thank God you are not in control of the entire country. And yes, there is a reason to wait before declaring which nominee to support - some call it 'increasing stock value'. Hey, if you choose your nominee before the end of all the primaries, are you not doing to those remaining states - who played by the rules - what you are about to aquit those states which broke the rules; that is (what do they call it) condisinfranchisementadoodlebadstuff?

"We're going to go all the way behind the curtains! Then we're going to choose your nominee for you! Then we're going to go to do a real cheesy kumbayeah in Denver! Yeaarrrgh!"
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-04-03 14:35  

#13  "As for Florida and Michigan, Mr. Dean is making it clear to party leaders that once the nomination race is all but over, there will be an agreement to seat both delegations under a proportional formula still to be worked out."

I think I got it. First the Super Delegates choose the nominee then the presumptive nominee himself gets to decide how to seat Florida and Michigan. WhoaÂ…clever one Howie. ItÂ’ll be almost as if the votes in those two states counted. SoooÂ…lets get this straight then. Under your plan Obama wins, the DNC picks up the convention liquor tab for the disenfranchised delegates, and then the rank and file Obama supporters get to write the checks to cover the ClintonÂ’s campaign debt. BrilliantÂ…but do you think anyone will notice.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2008-04-03 14:33  

#12  ...avoiding what he fears could be a "really ugly and nasty" fiasco.

Ah, c'mon, Howie. We all got faith in you. If anybody can make this thing even worse, it's you.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-04-03 14:08  

#11  Howard Dean has a plan that will produce a nominee before his party's convention in August, avoiding what he fears could be a "really ugly and nasty" fiasco.

Howard, you should know about ugly and nasty fiascos. I think it's already ugly and nasty from what I can tell--but I don't mind an ugly and nasty fiasco in Denver in August. Please pass the popcorn. How about another brewsky to go with it?
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-04-03 14:00  

#10  I agree with everything 'Spook said about Mr. Watts. Plus, J.C.'s got one of the coolest names around:

In his book What Color Is a Conservative: My Life and My Politics, Watts explained that the J.C. doesn't stand for anything, but he would often tell people that it was "Julius Caesar" as a joke, although the Congressional Biographical Directory lists Watts' official name as "Julius Caesar Watts, Jr.".
Posted by: Mike   2008-04-03 13:56  

#9  Haven't heard about JC for some time. He'd be an excellent choice.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-04-03 13:50  

#8  The Democrats are going to curse the day they handed this nitwit Dean the keys to DNC headquarters, if they haven't already.

I hope they lay the bulk of the blame for this debacle at his feet because that's where much of it belongs. Watching him on TV as he tries to talk his way out of this mess while desperately trying to shift focust to the Republicans has gone from comical, to tiresome, to downright embarrassing.

I can barely watch, anymore. Well, that's not entirely true. I can watch. It's just that I feel like I'm watching a train wreck and finding way too much joy and satisfaction in it. And that makes me feel all weird inside.
Posted by: eltoroverde   2008-04-03 13:45  

#7  Hit enter too soon

Watts: America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-04-03 13:32  

#6  JC Watts:

Character does count. For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking.

This is a guy we FredHeads were pushing Thompson to grab as his VP candiddate.

Anotehr quote:

If you are explaining, you are losing.

And he has taken the GOP to task in the past for its poor approach to black voters.

He is only 50. Making him a solid balancer to McCain and a great potential president for 2 terms.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-04-03 13:31  

#5  It's been pointed out that the pundits have nada, zero, nothing to say of value when they begin saying things like:

"What Howard Dean should do...", or
"What Harry Reid should do...", etc.

It means that they are utterly clueless. They might as well write "I am filling empty copy space."
Posted by: Anonymoose   2008-04-03 13:05  

#4  Darth, yes.
Posted by: Rambler in California   2008-04-03 12:55  

#3  Wait... are they gonna "fix" the vote, or "fix" the process.

I'm so confused.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-04-03 12:48  

#2  Which is why John McCain isn't committed to a VP, till the Donks show their hand. There are so many ways to leverage the Donks in this atmosphere. Does the name J C Watts ring a bell? Heh.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-04-03 12:45  

#1  Umm, Howie? If you're planning on giving the nomination to Obamarama before the entertainment/fight is over convention even starts, better watch out for the Hilldabeest your back. Is your will made out?

Just sayin'....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-04-03 12:35  

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