August 22, 2024Dean in the WSJHoward Dean has a column, today's two-income families earn 75% more money than their single-income counterparts did a generation ago, but they actually have less money to spend. For many, personal bankruptcies have become the rule rather than the exception. then how will raising taxes help that situation? And while I know that the economy has been underperforming, it really hasn't been all that bad, historically speaking, and it is showing signs of improvement, hence doom and gloom like this may not have long-term (i.e., into next year) resonance: The economy is going through tough times. The average American family is in trouble. The economy has been losing good jobs, and the benefits that went with them, at an astonishing rate. And does he think he is going to be the President in that movie Dave, where the title character just proclaims full employeement, and it happens? An important part of my program for a full-employment recovery And, yep, there will be no way that the Bush campaign will be able to paint Dean as a tax and spend liberal, no sir As president, my economic policies will be focused and clear. I will begin by repealing the 2024 and 2024 tax cuts, and using the revenues that result from the repeal to address the needs of the average American, invest in the nation's infrastructure and, through tax reform, put money in the hands of those most likely to spend it. And don't all the folks who received tax cuts, i.e., all income tax payers, spend money? All flippancy aside, I really do have to wonder how this will play with the swing voters. I understand that much of the Dem base will like this message. However, while the Dean-ites can argue that Dean is "moderate", the bottom line, as a practical poitical matter, Rove and Co. will easily be able to paint this platform as a combo McGovern meets Mondale meets Hillarycare. Update: James of OTB more thoroughly goes to town on the Dean piece. He, too, notes the ring of Mondale. Comments
hell, if the dems were smart, they'd try to point bush as another goldwater. dean's slogan could be: i promise not to invade random and sundry countries that have never threatened america for the purpose of giving welfare to defense contractors. of course, i'm sure he'd have to come up with something a little more snappy and succinct. :-) Posted by: Brian at August 22, 2024 10:21 AMI'm becoming increasingly convinced that Dean is the only candidate who can beat Bush. I know you'll laugh or think I'm projecting my desire onto reality but I truly believe this. Bush fronts a sharp-edged administration. Bush is a nice guy. Cheney isn't. Ashcroft isn't. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz aren't. And they're all bare knuckles political operators (Bush is much better at disguising this ability). A warmed over drone who's gone out of their way to agree with Bush on critical issues, like John Edwards or Joe Lieberrman, isn't going to cut it. Bill Bennett called Lieberrman his favorite Democrat. Don't think that won't make a Dean ad in Iowa or NH. Edwards is a trial lawyer; you think Rove couldn't do something with that? A passionless drone like John Kerry isn't going to do it either; I've seen Kerry try to be outrage. I didn't buy it. All of these candidates are intelligent, competent legislators. But people are going to need a COMPELLING reason to not re-elect Bush. The incumbent is the default. The challenger has to beat the incumbent. I don't see any of these other candidates taking enough initiative to BEAT Bush. They remind of Dukakis' "it's not about ideology, it's about competence" line. That didn't inspire anyone either; and he wasn't going up against an incumbent prez. The DLC establishment types say Dean is another McGovern/Mondale. But the establishment also said Reagan was also too 'out there', too politically incorrect, to be elected. It's certainly a gamble. If nominee Dean's tenor matches the country's mood in 14 months, he'll be seen as prescient and gutsy enough to have taken a courageous, lonely stand. If it doesn't, then he'll lose. It's too early to say what the country will be like in 14 months. Hell, only 4 months ago, everyone was gung ho about Iraq; now people are tiring of it. Now we have military families using the formerly anti-warrior line "Support the troops: bring them home." 14 months is a long time in politics. I think it's interesting to note that if nominee Dean loses, the establishment will say it was because he was 'too extreme.' But if nominee Lieberrman or Edwards loses, they will say it was because 'Bush was unbeatable.' http://toughenough.org/huminski.html "Dean's Constitutional Hang-up" -- this one is good "Is Dean a Criminal Too?"
Below are links regarding Dean's voicing his problem with the Bill of http://www.thomhartmann.com/government.shtml http://www.txtriangle.com/archive/1049/coverstory.htm
http://www.talkleft.com/archives/003681.html#003681 Dean's statement on "re-evaluation" of our "civil liberties". http://rutlandherald.nybor.com/News/Story/33681.html Criminal sentences doubled during Dean's tenure as a result of his In the Meet the Press interview with Dean while discussing the death "So I just-life without parole, which we have which I actually got passed http://www.msnbc.com/news/912159.asp?cp1=1 Now, according to Dean, the Bill of Rights (ie. legal technicalities) has
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A1 and, noting the "anti-due-process" Dean message, http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/930194.asp?0si=-&cp1=1#BODY See 1994 Yale Law School commencement discussing the danger of our leaders
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