HOWARD DEAN SAVES THE DEMOCRATS?

I don't think so. He couldn't make it past the Dem primaries--how is he going to reinvent the entire Dem party?

Don't get me wrong--I think Dean would have made a great president. If it weren't for his "I have a scream" speech, I think he would have managed to win the primary and presented MUCH more of a threat to Bush. That's the thing with candidates--we need one that is markedly different from the other. If they're sort of flacidly going on about terror and this and that and 911 and this and that and so on, it's hard to make people see that one is better than the other. This kind of thing makes fixing an election easier because you can't give anyone a landslide win--you have to fix it juuust a little so no one notices, or no one cares to notice. (There's plenty of evidence for tampering so don't pull any "sore loser/sour grapes" lines on me.) The point is, Dean can rock--he was viewed as a threat by the Repubs since the beginning and thanks to a media that doesn't care who it attacks (just so long as they're not Republican), Dean was an easy target with that momentary howl of his.

So, here we are in 2005, with 1 part in control and another with no spine. Feinstein tells me that we all have to get along and what this means to me is that the Dems will raise a stink until the Repubs tell them to simmer down.

This is where Dean comes in. He's a maverick, he's a loud-mouth. He says what he thinks and is consistent with his message (far more than Kerry or Bush, at least) and he wants to become the new chair of the Democractic National Party?

Hi, I'm the chair of the biggest party of pussies in America! That makes me, HEAD PUSSY!

Meow...

Good plan, Dean--why not start a third party? Co-opting the spineless may be easy, but won't you just be made spineless in the process? You'll have to compromise in order for them to accept you.

Oh, well...

Hey, Dean!

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