If you have NOT read this article about Howard Dean, you REALLY should read it because Howard Dean is really the greatest candidate for the Democratic Party to come around in very long time.
Why I'm Rooting for Dean
Not for President, of course. But a Bush vs. Dean contest would be ideal
By ANDREW SULLIVAN
Is Dean too extreme? On the critical matter of national security, Dean has a more defensible record than Kerry. He backed the first Gulf War, which Kerry couldn't bring himself to do, and the Afghanistan war. His opposition to the Iraq campaign is less a function of knee-jerk isolationism or even left-wing pacifism than a pragmatic judgment about how to fight best. No, alas, he's no Joe Lieberman in the war on terrorism. But his character suggests far more backbone in foreign affairs than does Kerry's Hamlet-like anguish and spin. I don't see Dean as President caving in to Jacques Chirac. And Dean could also save the Democrats from a left-wing split. In 2000 Al Gore lost in part because of the far-left Ralph Nader challenge. Dean has managed to bring these voters back into the fold -- without making any drastic policy commitments that could come back to haunt him. Kerry in comparison? Gore redux.
Perhaps our conservative brother vents his fear of his own destructive side.
Besides, Dean has space to move to the center in the spring. He has already made more moderate noises -- on taxes (he may not hike them all) and the U.N. (he won't always ask permission to wield American power abroad). His genuine fiscal conservatism and centrist record as Governor might help fend off attacks from the right. But he's not the only vulnerable Democrat on this score. Kerry will be painted as a hyperliberal anyway. Why not have someone who can truly fight back? Sometimes conviction matters. Without it, political parties wither and die. The Democrats haven't seen this kind of nerve in a very long time. They will end up with regrets if they throw it away.
And also David Brooks, who appears in political commentary on PBS Newshour seems to agree somewhat that Howard is the better side.
These moderates are recognizing the centrist in Howard Dean, even though Dean marketed himself as a lefty liberal. This was fine in the beginning but as the campaign moved on, Howard Dean should than have marketed the true Howard Dean, the man who really is a centrist,(Dean failed to move center for whatever stupid reason - most likely Trippi's bight ideas). Howard Dean could win in Washington. Bush and Clinton were afraid of this fact.
continued reading...
Like Paul Krugman says Bush is a radical - yes, Bush is a radical in that he is morally corrupt especially by Christian conservative values -- and like Sen. Trent Lott said this weekend "I'm not a new conservative" and so than, what is a new conservative - a conservative that is morally corrupt like congressman Tom DeLay?
AND PLEASE TAKE a LOOK at John Kerry's BAD NEWSWEEK article as well
More reasons why.... why the public should KNOW that Sen. John Kerry really isn't all that "electable".
Cash and Kerry
I found these piece via the commentary at Kausfiles. So finally, Mickey has came in handy for something, I guess.
In a 30-year career untainted by scandal, Kerry's encounter with Chung and Liu would turn into a political embarrassment. Federal investigators later discovered that Liu was in fact a lieutenant colonel in China's People's Liberation Army and vice president of a Chinese-government-owned aerospace firm. And Chung, who visited the Clinton White House 49 times, went on to become a central figure in the foreign-money scandals of 1996. Chung eventually pleaded guilty to funneling $28,000 in illegal contributions to the campaigns of Bill Clinton and Kerry.
Oh Geez, look it's Saint William Jefferson Clinton and his name found attached in some awful way with all this mess - (I wonder if the DLC founder, Al From is not far behind?). Funny how every single Democrat who has had Clinton's help with the campaign seems to have gone down in flames - like the recent ex-governor, Gray Davis.
AND I wonder if Gov. Davis, "bring on the vote now" is anything like Kerry's "bring it on".
Does "bring it on" mean "bring on that BIG, BIG OIL money BABY" when Kerry says that quote? After all, a slice of big oil campaign money is the best sugar daddy account around in Washington DC and Kerry did say NO to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change being ever mindful of need to be a disciple of MobilExxon?"
Global warming is just all hype.
There is NO WAY IN HELL I'd voting for DO NOTHING John Kerry, and BTW Andrew, far-left Ralph Nader isn't really all that far-left
Ralph Nader is a Howard Dean that went to
law school, not medical school.
I don't know if Nader has weblog but he certainly needs to get one soon if Howard Dean goes down.