The Vindication of Howard Dean

I'm glad about this for a host of reasons, including that Dean has been badly underrated. He's an effective pragmatist. The right, of course, insisted he was far to the left because he opposed the war.

Sounds like somebody else we know....
(My other comment is STILL in moderation? Because I said H-E-double-hockey-sticks? Who's moderating, Ned Flanders?)

Gunny if Nicolle can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. There's no loyalty among these thieves.

I enjoyed the article when I saw it until I got to the very last sentence.

We are not the elites, we are America, and we're situated squarely in its ideological center. We proved it in 2006, and we'll prove it again next week.

Even if it's true, I'd still feel better if he waited until Tuesday night to declare victory.

Andy - apparently we have the moderator of personal responsibility as well, custom designed by Focus on the Family.

gysgt,
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Just watch for all the Weekly Standard guys to have all manner of unsubtatantiated rumors flying around about them after Nov 5th. I am telling you that McCain is going to bury EVERYBODY that had anything to do with him selecting Palin and that includes Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt.

By the way McCain said on CNBC that he is against raising the minimum wage. Not a smart move on that one. I think that rips his whole joe the plumber image to shreds

It was a great long-term plan that paid off dividends in the short run when John McCain ran an issue-free campaign of fear and hatred. Fortunately, in 2008 it's a lot harder for some to deny reality and cry false equivalence when there are people on the ground on every state stepping in and saying "Not so fast."

"Gunny if Nicolle can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen."
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Andy,
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I'm the last person to defend Ms. Wallace. I still remember her laughing in Jay's face on Morning Joe when he had to the nerve to ask her when the campaign was going to let Palin be interview.
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However, I do think she was literally putting lipstick on the pig here. She had nothing to work with and she had no say in the pick. For Barnes to call her out is wrong in my opinion. A total cheap shot. He should be calling out the 2 top dogs of the campaign.

James LA - right you are.

Barnes had his facts wrong, Loud ignorance is apolitical.

LOL how effective with THIS ad be?
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On his record, Dean was far from the left of the party. He shocked Washington by not being milquetoast about partisan differences. it gave Dean Broder the vapors.

SG,

That was a pretty effective ad for me. I need to go and try to vote again!

That's terrifying, sgwhiteinfla.

I want to change my name to Dana Bash and then gay-marry John King. Who is going to f--- with the Bash-King! Who? You, Jay Carney? I think not.

HOUSTON – More than 427,000 people have voted early so far in Harris County. This is a pace the County has never seen before.
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In 1996, only 16 percent of Harris County voters voted early. But in 2000, 23 percent voted early, followed by 37 percent in 2004. However this year, the number of early voters has reached almost 40 percent and there are still three days of early voting remaining.
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http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/txcn/houston/stories/khou081028_mp_early-voting-red-blue.15a4f4ccf.html

Loud ignorance is the GOP base.

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Cincy,

Tell the joke and see if makes it out of moderation.

I believed in the 50 state strategy from the start. I felt it made perfect sense and couldn't figure out why not everyone would see this.
How in the world can you fight, win or be competitive unless you are on the ground everywhere fighting? You will never win if you cede territory and don't even try and just give up.
I thought the 10 state strategy the democrats ran for years was stupid and did not make sense.
One of the reasons I did not back Hillary was that she was a believer in the 10 state, give up and not fight thinking of the democrats ans why we kept losing.

Ai yi yi! I've been scratching my head wondering why all my posts were being moderated. Pretty inoffensive content...

But my original screen name was apparently giving palpitations to the schoolmarm-bot that scans posts. What the, uh, heck, is this, Time magazine or Highlights?

Paul no: I agree that it also ended the control of the Cazville-DLC rule.
thank goodness.
I hate the DLC. They are just pretend democrats and lapdogs of the right.

ADVICE! Always get an estimate before hiring a plumber, or you could get big surprises.

Gunny, that dog won't hunt when it comes to Nicholle Wallace. She could have offered her resignation if she felt the job was too much for her. No one had a gun at her head, when they asked her to manage Caribou Barbie.
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Nicholle was blinded by the lights, and the hype and the lust for power. This was not a United Way campaign.
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She gets no sympathy from this quarter, the same way convicted felon (I love how that sounds)Ted Stevens gets no sympathy from me.
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Ms. Wallace is over 21 in a high profile job and feels that character a$$asination and guilt by a$$ociation is appropriate. Now it's her reputation that's been besmirched. Cry me a freaking river.

SG: Peter Thomas gives good voiceover. Great ad.

You know I just thought of something. I know I am probably late to this but I am thinking that the reason non of the other probably VP candidates are saying that Sarah Palin is ready. They see her as a threat and the writing is on the wall that McCain will lose so they want to cut her down so that she doesn't leap frog them for 2012. I think this will intensify in the next few weeks