Who will drop out next?

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Wednesday February 04, 2004 · 6:28 PM PST

2004/02/04 · 18:28

It's a simple question.

Joewhere man

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Wednesday February 04, 2004 · 6:24 PM PST

2004/02/04 · 18:24

Fromt Slate's Joebituary:

It was the Joe campaign. The Web site was www.joe2004.com. The campaign vehicle was the Joemobile. The blog was www.blogforjoe.com. Why the Joe theme? To identify with the average Joe, I suppose. And maybe because the folks at the Lieberman campaign thought the name Lieberman sounded, well, a bit too Joeish.
Joe was the heir apparent, Al Gore's right-hand man. A bit too right-hand, as it turned out. He started out the race with a presumptive seniority that might have been called, in the parlance of his campaign, PrimoJoeniture. But on the stump, voters found him Joematose. He had trouble rustling up Joenations. Antiwar Democrats in Iowa found his support of the Iraq war Joefensive. He went into a Joesdive. He was Joewhere.

He's a real Joewhere man
Sitting in his Joewhere land
Making all his Joewhere plans
For Joebody

Bush's neoliberal foreign policy

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Tuesday February 03, 2004 · 4:00 PM PST

2004/02/03 · 16:00

One of Bob Dole's many yeeeagh moments in his long and cranky career was his surly reference to "Democrat wars" back around 1988, I think it was. (Yes, if anybody earned the right to resent the politicians who sent him to war, it is Bob Dole.)

Well, we finally have had a purely Republican war.
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Dean/Edwards - 'dream' ticket

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Monday January 26, 2004 · 9:31 PM PST

2004/01/26 · 21:31

I'd even work enthusiastically for an Edwards/Dean slate. I think uniting northern and southern populism is the next frontier for Democrats.

Vets for Kerry should switch to Clark

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Monday January 26, 2004 · 9:29 PM PST

2004/01/26 · 21:29

I know you long to vote for a man who has stood under fire, but with Clark you get that and the southern thing, and whatever magic they have in the ozarks that grows these charismatic leaders.

Clark supporters in NH should throw their vote to Dean

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Monday January 26, 2004 · 7:43 PM PST

2004/01/26 · 19:43

Clark's fortunes plummeted in tandem because in Michael Moore's immortal words, Clark is Dean 2.0. The Kerry/Edwards "hair surge" hurt the general-lobbyist who didn't go to Iowa nearly as bad as the doctor-governor who didn't go to Nam. Now the hole piggy-back scenario is screwed.

If you look at my recent poll, a subset of the Dean supporters are those who think Clark will beat out Kerry for second place. I only had one Clark victory option and nearly no one has voted for it (probably just being realistic), so I suspect the Clark supporters are voting KDCE, KECD KDCL, or DKCE, and DKCL.

My point is, those are the margins of Dean's slight edge currently in the poll (Dean 48, Kerry 46), because almost all the Kerry votes are clustered on the KDEC finish, whereas Dean's votes are mainly split between two alternate scenarios: DKEC and DKCE, with 14% supporting the Clark comes in third scenario. If those people (or their equivalents in NH) vote for Dean, Dean beats Kerry in my poll. This preserves Dean as Clark's foil and blunts the success of Kerry and Edwards.

Make him deny it

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Monday January 26, 2004 · 6:36 PM PST

2004/01/26 · 18:36

Who am I to say whether George W. Bush went AWOL in the '70s or what drugs he may or may not have been taking in those days? There's no way I can know and there's no reason why General Clark or any other Democratic politicans should have to distance themselves from a thorough investigation of the allegations. Let them spin it? Deserter? How dare you impugn this fine upstanding WASP iconoclast, you rapscallion you! He was merely away without leave, failed to muster, marked absent, no explanation still extant in the files, fancy that.

But, no one asked Republican politicians to distance themselves from those who called Clinton a draft-dodger (instead of what he actually was, a Presidency-lusting weasel).

Reposted by xian from Edgewise. Comment there or here at Kos.

Edgewise endorses Howard Dean

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Monday January 26, 2004 · 5:59 PM PST

2004/01/26 · 17:59

With the recent surprise post-Iowa endorsement of Howard Dean by Cecil Vortex, Edgewise has become an all pro-Dean blog. Alert the media!

Note, technically this is not true because I've invited my dad to post to Edgewise too and I doubt he's for Dean but he hasn't figured out how to post yet, so I don't know if he counts for these purposes.

Endorse your candidate

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Friday December 12, 2003 · 10:56 PM PST

2003/12/12 · 22:56

Jesse Taylor at Pandagon is inviting supporters of Democratic primary candidates to tell him why you support your candidate. He will be running the arguments for various candidates on Pandagon's front page.

Here's the entire invitation:

I'm posting arguments from the supporters of Democratic candidates on Monday on the main page, provided I get enough to make it worthwhile. So far, I only have e-mails from Clark supporters.
In 1000 words or less, let me know why you support your candidate of choice, why you think they're an effective Democratic leader, and why you think they can beat Bush. Unless otherwise told, I will post whatever name you sign your e-mail under, although not your e-mail address. If you have a blog or a website that you'd like me to link to, let me know.
I'll also be posting donation links for each of the candidates that I get responses for, so if you write, you're potentially sending money flooding (or trickling, as the case may be) into their coffers.
E-mail at: jesse-at-pandagon-dot-net

Dean is a breath of fresh air

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Friday December 12, 2003 · 3:51 PM PST

2003/12/12 · 15:51

I was just reading World o' Crap's latest spanking of Andrew Sullivan, which includes this exchange between Judy Woodruff and Howard Dean:

WOODRUFF: At the same time, Governor, I'm sure you know the Republicans are already starting to talk about the fact that you -- I think by your own acknowledgment, left the Episcopal Church in some dispute over a bike path, and you switched to another denomination, the Congregationalist denomination.
They're asking what does this say about the depth of your commitment to your own faith?
DEAN: You know what it really says? It says the Republicans are talking like they're out of the Pharisees. Because if you're a Christian, you're a Christian. I don't believe it ought to matter what kind of a denomination you are.
As a matter of fact, if you're a religious person, you're a religious person. I don't think it ought to matter what religion you are.
So people who talk like that are what Jesus would call the Pharisees. And I think that's enough of that kind of stuff in the Republican Party. We are all in this together, whether you are a Christian, or a Jew or a Muslim or a Hindu. And there's plenty of all to go around in this country.
WOODRUFF: Was it just over a bike path that you left the Episcopal Church?
DEAN: Yes, as a matter of fact it was. I was fighting to have public access to the waterfront, and we were fighting very hard in the citizens group to allow the public to use it. And this particular diocese decided to join a property rights suit to close it down. I didn't think that was very public spirited.
One thing I feel about religion, you have to be very careful not to be a hypocrite if you're a religious person. It is really tough to preach one thing and do something else. And I don't think you can do that.
WOODRUFF: And you don't believe, Governor, the Republicans are going to have a field day with comments like these?
DEAN: The Republicans always have a field day with things like this. That's the reason Democrats lose, is because they're so afraid of the Republicans having a field day with comments like this or like that, that they never make any comments.

Yes, thank you, finally.

I don't think Dean is perfect. I don't agree with all of his positions. His body language on TV sometimes makes me wince. But the very fact that he seems to relish wading into areas of discussion that other Democrats have banned from their vocabularies and concept-maps - that's what makes me so hopeful.

It used to be called "taking the bull by the horns." It's a good way to avoid being gored, if you know what I mean.

I will probably post this over at my regular political blog, Edgewise, or at my unofficial pro-Dean site, Oakland for Dean.

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