Reply #81: This shows the Democratic leadership in their true colors. [View All]

[bklyncowgirl]

OK, let's say that all of these Democratic powerbrokers really felt that Dean was a threat to the party. Wouldn't it make sense for them to get together and come up with an attractive, viable alternative. Instead it looks like everyone wanted to play kingmaker and what was worse, IMHO, they did it in public and come off looking like the Keystone Kops meet Macheivelli.

Let's see.

Gephardt and Dashle back Hindery. Alright, he's the sort of guy who usually gets this sort of job but aside from not realizing that a guy who was a major part of the conspiracy to knock out Dean in Iowa would truly piss off the Deaniacs (and maybe encourage Dean who at this point was just testing the waters to jump in with both feet) they also failed to understand that someone who was a big donor to the Republicans as well as to the Democrats was not going to get alot of love from DNC members. Guilty of political tone deafness.

Bill and Hil: In a little attempt to grease the skids for 2008 they try to get their own guy in. "Hey Wes, how'd you like to be DNC Chair?" "No thanks Bill, I have my own plans for 2008, see you in New Hampshire, Hil.' and then there was Harold Ickes who seems to have been drafted into running and having failed to do the necessary butt kissing, jumped ship to Dean as soon as he possibly could.

John Kerry: Like Bill and Hil he wanted to do a little skids greasing and went to his old buddy Gov. Vilsack who was so helpful to him in Iowa in 2004. Vilsack has his own ambitions. "See you in Iowa, John." Kerry moves from candidate to candidate none of whom apparently feel terribly strongly about running.

Nancy & Harry: Anybody but Dean (except for Martin Frost of course) Let's show everyone how we've moved to the right by backing a candidate that most Democrats are absolutely going to hate. Yup we're power brokers.

Mark (the Kingmaker) Brewer: Note to Mark. Next time you try to foist the son of one of your buddies on the DNC it might be a good idea if you and golden boy not be tied in together with any sort of financial shenanigans--it just doesn't look good for the party, you know what I mean.

Looking at representative sample of our leadership is there any doubt as to why the Democrats have been losing elections? At least Dean's his own man (I think) and ran this campeign in a rather masterful way. About the worst you could accuse him of was (maybe) feeding dirt on other candidates to the bloggers and the media although it seems that most of the dirt was stuff which anyone with an elementary knowledge of Google and access to periodical databases available free at your local public library could have pulled up and probably did.

Congratulations Chairman Dean--now watch your back, Doc.