Mobile Register: Dems Should Drop Dean
The Mobile Register today became what we think is the first major newspaper to call for Howard Dean to step down as DNC chair. Have others already done so? Let us know!
Following his 12/5 remarks about the US's ability to win the war in Iraq, the Register urged Dems to "fire" Dean. "It is outrageous for" Dean "to declare -- especially against evidence to the contrary -- that Americans cannot win the war they are fighting against a mortal enemy. Such defeatism is anathema," the paper's editorial board wrote. Dean's remarks "are just the latest in a series of statements by this loose cannon that went beyond criticism into offensiveness. Even if Mr. Dean believes this nonsense, it is highly inappropriate for somebody in his position to say it. ... Such insinuations should not stand."
George Bush, August 29, 2004:
George Bush, October 24, 2004
Tell ya what. If the Mobile Register will agree that the country should drop Bush, I'll be happy to agree to drop Dean.
[via Patridiot Watch]
Iraq is a mortal enemy? When did that happen?
Also, I think it is important to note that Dean has been correct on virtually everything he's said about Iraq. John Judis (a Deanophobe himself) has an excellent article about that in the New Republic.
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w051205&s=judis120805
This is the one and only, though there were many centrist Dems like myself who cringed. When I outlined why Howard Dean drives me nuts, I got slammed in contact/emails, as well as in the comment section on the post. Dean still has a lot of support. I don't want him to be "fired." I just want him to clarify his words before he gives the Bushies talking points.
Sad. I would think that people who are in the news business could actually be bothered to read the entirety of his remarks, rather than responding to a soundbite, but I suppose that's too much to expect these days.
I'm 66, a cradle Republican who switched after 1960, and one who has bemoaned the dissipation of the FDRHST/AES/JFK/LBJ/HHH belief-core to "whatever is inoffensive to the elites". Dean is the best answer we've had to that dissipation and it's just like some "Red State" rag to suggest ditching him.
Dean wasn't installed at his job at the DNC by corporate media or by careerist Beltway corporatist Democrats. Grass roots and netroots Democrats, fed up with the lilly-livered opposition to Bush's fascist onslaught, put him there. And he's doing a GREAT job. He shouldn't back down-- especially with a majority of Americans on the exact same page as he is.