Link pimp.

Hey, if I think it was smart enough to write about in the first place, I already wrote about it on my blog. Duhhh.

I'm not much on Hillary conspiracies, but you're dead on here and she's the expected beneficiary. Her spokepeople were right out in front condemning Dean's latest greatest hit.

Hillary! Not a commie after all, but a very reasonable lady!

It's called "good cop bad cop" and it's as old as ... well ... Nancy Pelosi.

I'm beginning to think that the Dems have got the knives out for Hillary. The very moderate wing that pushed Bubba to the front of the pack will be lining up behind Evan Bayh. The Dems are gonna let the Republicans waste their energy on demonizing Hillary, and then cut her loose.

Just my humble opinion.

I don't know.

I mean, if we had some Republican spokesperson out there saying that Democrats are bad people, calling them the enemy, and that all Dems are minorities and lazy white trash, I fail to see how we could reap anything but a whirlwhind.

Middle-of-the-road types who have voted Democrat before would tell the Republicans to go to hell, and donors would seal their checkbooks, rightfully.

No matter who we were trying to advance as a candidate, the contrast between that person and the loony spokesman wouldn't be enough to override the stupid remarks.

Dean gets to act out his party's frustrations in public at the same time as acting as the lightning rod for criticism. His very presence deflects attention from the moonbat positions taken by others in his party.

This is, as the British say, too clever by half. And being Liberals, this may be exactly what some of them believe. But Dean will come to symbolize the entire party and discrediting them again will be his greatest contribution to the Dems.

72--

Oh, I'm not one to believe in conspiracy theories. However, there is a "half clever" angle to this-- namely, Dean may not be in on the joke.

Meaning, many Dems may be appaled at Dean-- either for talking crazy-talk, or alternatively saying what they privately believe but would never say out loud in public-- but in the end, a utilitarian perspective wins the day. He's more useful being a pain of the ass on the DNC payroll than being a pain in the ass outside of the DNC, running for President for six straight years.

Given that the DNC party organization has been so messed up for *years*, I doubt many Dems are all that sad that yet another tone-deaf yaboo is sitting in charge of their warchest. It's not like they were getting much out of the last guy, and I doubt they'll get much more out of a new guy (or gal).

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Refresh me, I really don't know; did McAuliffe poop all over large corporations that he was trying to get donations from?
I thought the Clintons lapdog was a pretty good fundraiser.

As a counterfactual, suppose Pat Buchanan had become RNC chair in the 90s. Would that have helped other Republicans by making them appear more moderate? Lauraw is right: moderate, independent voters would have been massively alienated, and any conservative to the left of Buchanan (i.e., Augusto Pinochet and pretty much anyone else you can think of) would have cringed every time he opened his mouth. Dean’s chairmanship is just a fiasco the Dems stumbled into, which makes it all the more fun to watch.

Another contrast: if Buchanan had made comparable statements demonizing Democrats, that would have been front-page news, and the subject of many, many tongue-clicking commentaries. Dean’s gaffes have been getting remarkably light coverage. In a way, that’s good. A Republican who talked like this would have been forced to resign by the ensuing media sh!tstorm, but Dean is still there, still talking—inflicting the death of a thousand cuts on himself and his party.

If I were the Powers-That-Be in the Democratic Party, I'd let ol' crazy Doc Howie rant and rave a while. Then I'd wait until he made yet another whacky-offensive comment ('cause you know he's just going to get worse.)

Suddenly, pow! A big public removal from the chairmanship, with Hillary and Obama and Bayh making the rounds pointing out that the Democrats is the party that will not tolerate bigotry within its ranks, even at the highest level, unlike those evil Republicans.

I don't think I'd let Byrd try to make that point, though.

Dave at Garfield Ridge

Given their history I think it quite likely that the Dems are not crazy like a fox, they're just crazy. Perhaps some believe in the fantastic notion of Dean as lighting rod etc. but in the end he will hurt more than he helps. Nothing would help them more than a "moderate" Democrat like Henry Jackson or John Mcain or some other "centerist" (in Democratic terms). And I think nothing is more likely in this scenario than the probability that Dean will help them trip over their own dicks - again!

The Dems had to know that any crazy stuff Howie said would not exactly get front-page treatment, right? The press is not going to run with anything that makes a lefty look bad; I think Bozell wrote an article about this very topic today. The fact that the Dems know they have the press in their collective hip pocket makes the conspiracy-theory argument suspect.

The press is not going to run with anything that makes a lefty look bad

Yeah, only Looney Tunes like Howie Dean can do that to themselves, but he has and he will again! And removing him can't erase the fallout he will generate for his party.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Dean’s chairmanship is just a fiasco the Dems stumbled into, which makes it all the more fun to watch.

Dean is still there, still talking—inflicting the death of a thousand cuts on himself and his party.

Utron has it just right!

And while it is annoying to watch the game as the Liberal press calls it, 72 strikes for a Liberal to be out vs. the 3 it takes for a conservative, that just makes the Dean's bad habit of talking shit in public that much harder to stop!

LaureW wrote:
I mean, if we had some Republican spokesperson out there saying that Democrats are bad people, calling them the enemy, and that all Dems are minorities and lazy white trash, I fail to see how we could reap anything but a whirlwhind.

Did you see Peggy Noonan in today's WSJ? You and she are on the same page....

Thanks Wiz, I went to OpinionJournal to check it out, and naturally she said it far better than I ever could.

here's the link

You mean you JUST NOW realized that this is all a prelude to Hillary riding in on Oprah's White Horse? H-E-L-L-O ?????