Dean for DNC Chairman
MR. RUSSERT: The New Republic has written an editorial opposed to your candidacy. It says... The liberal base is simply not large enough to win national elections."
DR. DEAN: First of all, I don't think we're talking about a liberal base. I think we're talking about a populist base, a base that wants economic justice, a base that wants fairness, a base that knows it's been left behind by a president who is much more interested in corporate welfare than he is of the welfare of the American public at large.
Second of all, our campaign didn't fail because I was wrong about the strategy. Karl Rove has used the strategy that the New Republic talked about incredibly successful. You didn't see the president becoming a centrist all of a sudden. The president is the most conservative really far-right president we've seen in my lifetime and he uses that very effectively to get his base to the polls.
As I said earlier, we ran the best grassroots campaign that I've seen in my lifetime. They ran a better one. Why? Because we sent 14,000 people into Ohio from elsewhere. They had 14,000 from Ohio talking to their neighbors and that's how you win in rural states and in rural America. If we don't do those things, we aren't going to win. We have to learn to do those things.
Meet The Press 12/13/04
Kyle: It is time for a change in the direction. In recent years, the Democratic Party has tried imitate the Republican Party thinking that if we do what they do we will win. The DNC raises money from the same places. They try and move farther to the right on the issues. And most importantly they keep loser consultants in top leadership positions. The DNC is loaded with former Gore Campaign staffers from 2000 who again proved their ability to win this past election.
Dean will be different.
He proved to be an inovator on the campaign trail. His campaign's ability to raise small dollar amounts from a large number of donors on the internet changed campaign fundraising forever. He sticks to Democratic principals like a liveable wage, healthcare for children, saving social security, and protecting a woman's right to choose. Anyone who tells you that the Democrats need to move farther to the right is just repeating talking points from conservative talk radio. Democrats are not wrong on the issues. We have had the wrong messangers delivering the wrong message.
Dean is somewhat of a long shot to win the seat because of his outsider status and the Democratic Party's recent history of more of the same. Still, we hope he gets the job.
By Kyle - 12/13/2004
5 Comments:
these must be desparate times at chief source HQ to print something like this
Dean makes a perfect point about rallying the base. We would be in good hands, and ensure to keep the young people involved.
The Democrat base isnt big enough to win elections alone - and Dean doesnt even appeal to alot of the base anyways. Its a flawed strategy - he is not going to ge the chair, he knows it, this is all just something to keep his name in the news, when he should just fade away and go skiiing in VT
Who should do it? Donna Brazil? Mary Beth Kay-Hill? Ben Afleck?
I dont know.
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