Can we please get a little love for Howard Dean? I mean really. He has proven his mettle as the chair of the Democratic National Committee and his 50 State Strategy has been nothing short of brilliant. He made as a primary objective that the party would field a candidate in every race in the country. When the wheels came off the Republican wagon, we had candidates in the races. We were not caught flat-footed. We were prepared.No thanks to Rahm Emmanuel and the DCCC. Nancy Boyda ran her whole race with no DCCC help until the last ten days. The DCCC stepped up to help her close the deal, but she won that race in spite of them, not because of them.
Now I'm hearing that James Carville is calliing for Dean to be replaced as the head of the DNC. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. Frag the winning General. I swear to God, if the national Democrats start turning on Howard Dean, I'm out of the party.
For years we have been trying to get the attention of the national party out here in the middle, but to no avail. Until Howard Dean came along. He pulled this party back together and made it okay to say out loud that you were a Democrat and proud of it.
Now the establishment dems who let us get to the point as a nation where we currently find ourselves, the establishment Dems who wear the same suits and are indistinguishable from Republicans, want to attack the guy who led the party back from the cliff they tried to drive us over?
Not on my watch, buddy. The independent minded and clear-headed need to let the clowns at the national party level know that if they go after Howard Dean and try to oust him as chairman, we will have no part of it. We will not donate money or time. Try winning another election without us. We knocked on doors and we phone banked. We wrote letters to the editor and we registered voters at farmers markets and art fairs. We learned the issues and we educated our friends and family members.
Just try to win an election without us.
If you try to throw Dr. Dean under the bus, you will face the prospect of doing just that.
I think I have a better idea. Let's throw James Carville - and anyone who advocates getting rid of Dr. Dean as the party chair - under a bus. But let's set them on fire first.
