Donna Brazile for DNC Chairman...I say NOT

[BeyondGeography]

Brazile's making a strong bid, according to Chuck Todd this morning on C-Span. If this happens, I might start thinking Green Party, personally.

Why? Brazile is personally likeable but absolutely unpersuasive as a speaker. Worse, for all the pretense of strong Louisiana roots, Beltway Brazile is a D.C. creature, a personal friend of Karl Rove's, for crying out loud, who comes off as too friendly with the opposition. This is a minor complaint with me compared to her inability to defend and advance our arguments. I've seen enough of her mealy-mouthed performances on CNN to last a lifetime. I don't see her mobilizing the grass-roots of the party either.

Wrong choice. Hope it's just a rumor.

BTW, Dean is my choice.

[Huckebein the Raven]

1. I hope not. What the hell are they doing if they do nominate her ?

:wtf:

[gWbush is Mabus]

2. brazille, reid, >>> our party is going down the shitter

[still_one]

3. you are right

she was worthless in the Gore campaign

[arwalden]

4. I Love Her Passion And Energy...

but sometimes it seems that her command of the English language is just one letter-grade above Bush's*.

[JI7]

5. was it based on fact or is it just a rumor so far ?

[hlthe2b]

6. No way.... Her association with Karl Rove has never been

helpful to US, that's for sure--she's out of her league is she thinks she could outwit him and garner any benefit to us from her association. I think she was a liability to Al Gore and now wants to be a liability to us in 06/08? Sorry.

[Carni]

20. Yes, thank you

What he said!

[ladjf]

7. That would be a great way to guarantee failure for our cause.

[skylarmae]

8. I'm with you on this. I've had my fill of Mealy-mouthed.

but, if we don't get this bbv mess fixed, little will it do but waste our time and break our hearts again and again and again. That is, of course, if they don't wall us all up in some quadrant of the Country.

[cali]

9. Hopeless

It'll either be Brazille or Ickes. I don't know which is worse. They won't see a penny from me. I'll be giving to DFA not the DNC.

[JI7]

11. why do you think it will be Ickes ?

[cali]

15. According to various

articles I've read and having seen him yesterday on C-Span, he's interested in it. He's a powerful guy within those circles and strongly supported by the Clintons. He's head of some important Hillary committee. And yes, I think the Clintons have a great deal of power in matters like this.

[WI_DEM]

17. Terry was Clinton's choice too

and it turned out not to be the best of choices in my opinion.

[Eurobabe]

36. ditto, me too.

or WESPac.

[hlthe2b]

10. We should have had the late Maynard Jackson as

DNC Chair, instead of McAuliff and might have made some headway with the deep south. But, Brazile will not mobilize the south, the base, nor anyone else, IMO. She will be eaten alive by the RW nastily aggressive white men. She has a role to play, but is not sharp enough, IMO to take on this position.

[krkaufman]

12. Please, no. n/t

[Me.]

13. Hoawrd Dean Is Interested

Let him have it, we can count on him to speak up.

[wakfs]

14. Supposedly....

Brazile is a brilliant organizer. I read somewhere (don't remember where, sorry) that the choice for DCN chair comes down to this - a great operator/organizer or a great message person. Apparently Brazile is in the first category.

Maybe the DNC needs to find a second leader to handle the message/vision thing.

I agree that Brazile is sort of a loser and we need fresh faces and voices in leadership positions.

[oldtime dfl_er]

23. It's okay to be a brilliant strategist

But in a red-controlled media, her milqetoast rhetoric is a liability.

[WI_DEM]

16. My guess is that the party regulars will unite behind her rather than Dean

which is a shame. We need Dean's passion and energy. But he is too much of a maverick for the party to accept.

[City Lights]

18. I am opposed to her also.

I prefer Dean.

I just don't think she's a strong spokesperson for our side. I've seen her hold her own on occasion, but she usually delivers a lackluster performance against bay buchannan on _CNN. She speaks in monotone and we need someone who shows some emotion.

[Carni]

19. No... NO and HELL NO!

Donna and Rove had a special amiable relationship during the 2000 election...they may as well make Zell Miller the DNC leader IMO

[David Dunham]

21. The right wing will savage her because they claim she's a lesbian.

[Rooktoven]

22. No freaking way. A hopeless strategizer. (SIGN this Petition)

If she gets it, kiss any chance we have good-bye. The only hope is to have Howard Dean.

Please sign this petiton to have the DNC vote Dean in.

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/deanfordnc

[Mizmoon]

24. I vote for Dean and I was NEVER a Deaniac

He interviews very, very well. He thinks very quickly on his feet. He has energy and spark.

She bores the hell out of me.

[Sputnik]

25. No, no, NO!!!

A thousand times NO!

That would be a HUGE mistake. Donna Brazile is not the answer.

If the DNC selects her, that's a sign that there will be no real changes in the M.O. of our party which, since 2000, has been to put our hands up in the air and say, "Please don't hit me too hard" and then still gotten the shit kicked out of us.

No. Uh-uh. Negative. When donkeys fly.

[montanacowboy]

26. Its TIME for a NEW PROGRESSIVE PARTY GUYS..

People like Brazile, Ickes and all those DLC types are not going to further our cause, but simply mire us deeper and deeper in election loss after loss. Ickes is involved deeply with the Clintons and probably will be behind Hillary 08.

Wake up people - The Democratic Party is worthless. Listening on Olberman last night to John Conyers, it was so pathetic...he was insisting that we don't want to overturn the election, after all "John Kerry conceded"..... we only want to see what we can do to fix future elections..

AFter three losing elections have we learned nothing? Time to mobilize - cast these right wing sympathizers aside, they have done us so much damage we may never recover.

[Rowdyboy]

27. Hell, Bay Buchanon beats her up regularly and she just sits there

and takes it. NO NO NO! Anyone else before Donna Barazile!

[elehhhhna]

28. SHE STINKS. Nothing personal but BAD BAD BAD.

[The empressof all]

29. Holy Mary Mother of God

I'd rather have Terry Mc-and he's a hopeless hack- Donna just doesn't come across as strong or even quick on her feet.

What the hell is the matter with Dr. Dean?

[knight_of_the_star]

30. Not just no

But HELLS NO!

We need someone who is going to fight back, not release some stupid mealy-mouthing statement.

[ObaMania]

31. No, she's an ass-kissing, * enabling piece of shit.

Good friends with many G*O*P* strategists as I understand it.

She can rot for all I care.

[Arkana]

32. To Brazile being DNC Chair, I have one thing to say:

"YEAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!"

Dean for DNC!

[prodigal_green]

33. because she's been so effective in the past two campaigns?

NO!

[JI7]

34. kick

would like to know if it's just a rumor so far or if we know for a fact she wants this job.

[DinahMoeHum]

35. Sorry, Donna. We need an ass-kicker like Howard Dean. . .

not a boot-licker like yourself.


:kick:

[HootieMcBoob]

37. Bad idea

I just don't see her as a glavanizing personality and she's not a strong speaker.