Letters to the Editor

• It's about time Dean stepped up

  [Read the article: Dean looking for superdelegates to decide "now"]
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  I can respect the reasons why he has held back until now, but if McCain ends up in The White House in January, many Democratic activists will be saying this was too little, too late. To be fair to Dean, Clinton's awful, negative campaign and selfish conduct has limited his options to an extent. Clearly he wants, and probably wanted all along, Obama to be the nominee having witnessed his pull with the newest generation of voters and willingness to embrace the 50-state strategy that Dean has had to fight tooth and nail to get started due to constant attempts to sabotage and derail it from the likes of Clinton DLC cronies. No doubt the 50-state strategy is Dean's baby and what he and most every party activist consider a lynchpin essential for actually strengthening the party beyond traditional Democratic strongholds that have failed to stop the Republicans from advancing in so many elections for generations now. With Obama nearly outraising all other candidates combined so far, Dean certainly realizes this may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to really gain a foothold in many areas of the country that DLC leaders simply forfieted in election after election.

  But that window of opportunity is ever increasingly in danger of closing with the press constantly promoting the false hype that Clinton's candidacy being sustained to this point is legit by any measure. Had a DLC flunkie bagman been in Dean's job and Obama, having been shut out 11 consecutive times in the month of Febraury, started talking out of his ass that he and the lone Republican candidate McCain were "qualified" candidates and Clinton wasn't, every DLC crony, every worthless TV pundit, and no doubt Clinton herself would be demanding that he immediately withdraw from the race on the basis that Obama's conduct was not only torpedoing her chances but bringing down the party as well. Obama never would have heard the end of it. Dean certainly has to be patient and no doubt he's shown incredible restraint to this point, but doing so has helped enable a double-standard for Clinton to repeatedly exploit for far too long.

  Dean has to know that if the roles were reversed, that Clinton and her thuggish DLC establishment hacks would never for a second extend the same level of courtesy to him. And he has to know what's at stake for him and his party if Clinton actually ever were to become the nominee. She'd basically get to pick the next DNC chairman and Dean sure as hell knows how much contempt Clinton has for the 50-state strategy. Not only would Dean be gone, but all his hard work would immediately be dismantle in favor of a return to the Clinton/DLC brand of kissing ass to rich, and often corrupt huge special interest donors. Yeah, that will really give Americans a real clear alternatives to the Republican Party for sure. We've all seen the results of Clinton's bad habit of picking loyalty far too often over competence in regard to filling critical positions with the dismal failures of Patti Solis-Doyle and Mark Penn. Imagine someone of thier ineptitude being handed Dean's chair at the DNC.

  The press has already demonstrated that they will under no circumstances give McCain any critical scrutiny. He, like Bush before him, will be given a free ride by all in the MSM. That alone is a tough enough disadvantage for the Dem nominee, as Gore and Kerry can attest. And those two already had the party largely behind them for months already at this point without some pouting, spoiled, negative Republican campaigning old maid with dissaproval ratings in the stratosphere trying to stab them in the back with Karl Rove tactics. The price for Clinton's disgusting hubris will be Obama having virtually half the time Gore and Kerry had and maybe less to close what could be a substantial lead in favor of McCain after the convention. That's very little time to change perceptions that McCain will have had the benefit of pounding into the voters' minds uncontested for months on end. Obama may likely have to be perfect at every single press conference and lights-out at the debates and even then it may not be enough to make up for the time lost that could have been used to pick apart McCain instead of having to put up with Clinton's utterly baseless attacks and excuses for them.

  The excuse that not every state has voted has absolutely zero merit coming from Clinton or any of her supporters. They continually paraded around stating that the race would be declared over once she won Iowa, then after she lost there, suddenly declared that New Hampshire was her firewall and the race would be decided there after merely two states had a say in the matter. Then after a blowaout in South carolina didn't count according to husband Bill, they declared the race would be over for Obama after Super Tuesday at which point rughly maybe just half the country's voters had a say. Now, after only just a puny EIGHTY PERCENT of the states have voted resulting in a delegate lead that even Clinton's campaign had to acknowledge was insurmountable, they completely have completed thier usual flip-flop crying that "will of the people" crapola as another cheap excuse to buy her another day.

  Dean, don't request the Supers to make up thier mind. Demand it for God's sake and your party's sake.

  Permalink Friday, April 18, 2008 08:38 PM