For all you ABD's out there.
Why do you think everyone- Fox news, Rover, the media establishment, the pundits, are tearing into Howard Dean?
The people that control our media- not just FOX but GE, etc. know that Bush is their ticket to the kind of government reforms they could never have dreamed of - just wait until his second term. Add on to that that Dean is a complete outsider and will shake up the status quo of power in Washington, press included, and we begin to understand why they are ganging up.
The question is: if you are as smart as Rover seems to be at this politics thing, how would you place the Gray Davis Pick-My-Opponent game?
Would you:
a. Gang up on the person you least want elected
b. Gang up on the person you most want elected (a little reverse psychology)
Strategy B is too risky. They are simply piling on Dean because they do NOT want to face him in the general election. (I also think they don't want Clark). Gep? 20 year+ congressional record to bash. Kerry? Dukakis' Lt. Guv! Edwards? Trial lawyer- he may as well have been a used-car salesman or a porn producer. Lieberman? Please please please give us Lieberman.
It is Dean (and Clark) who they fear. Dean will fight back. He will call it like it is. He could, mano a mano in a debate, do something unexpected (a "you're no Jack Kennedy moment") and rattle Bush's cage. And he has the base- something Gore didn't have locked up. And the money- don't forget he'll have more money than any of the others.
What I ask then, is why you would not be supporting the candidate Bush and Rover obviously FEAR MOST.???