Have you heard anything from Kerry campaign people referring to Howard Dean and his team of supporters as a ‘joke’ or a souce of ‘jokes’?
I understand that many ‘establishment’ Democrats were uncomfortable with Dean and …… that’s OK. But it must be recognized that it wasn’t BECAUSE of Kerry that our caucus’ where recordbreaking. In fact, Kerry wasn’t very well organized in this state.
So when a local supporter of a 4th congressional candidate in a Letter to the Editor of our local paper tried to disparage a progressive candidate in favor of their more moderate Democratic candidate, she claimed that the progressive candidate was TOO DEAN-LIKE! Too Dean-like? Gee I guess we better look out for those Dean-like candidates. They must be rabid nuts or something. Heh … maybe their supporters are a little wacky too.
I’ve even heard that if Kerry is elected … there will be a purge of Dean supporters from leadership positions in the party.
Is anyone else picking up such vibes?
So when a local supporter of a 4th congressional candidate in a Letter to the Editor of our local paper tried to disparage a progressive candidate in favor of their more moderate Democratic candidate, she claimed that the progressive candidate was TOO DEAN-LIKE! Too Dean-like? Gee I guess we better look out for those Dean-like candidates. They must be rabid nuts or something. Heh … maybe their supporters are a little wacky too.
I’ve even heard that if Kerry is elected … there will be a purge of Dean supporters from leadership positions in the party.
Is anyone else picking up such vibes?
5 comments:
If Dean supporters and the other progressives that have found our way into the Democratic Party are 'purged' after this election, it will tear the Party apart. Where did you hear that? Which newspaper, and when was that letter published? We should respond to this in kind and on record.
The letter was published in the Tri-City Herald's Letters to the Editor section, on Friday, July 30, letter is entitled "Mason [the Dean-like candidate] may want to reconsider"
Looks like they don't have their letters on the website. We have a lot of work to do to fix the Democratic Party.
If there is ANY purging of Dean, Deans' ideas, Dean people or Dean candidates then it is time for a new, and better, party.
This sounds like a minority opinion to me. Every Kerry person I have encountered gives US the credit for waking up the party and getting the debate ratcheted up.
I take that and what I know we did as the source of my pride in what we are still doing, not some far-out opinion from one reader, who obviously doesn't know squat. Or merely thinks that some factions of the party are a little more cranked up than s/he is. Well, yeah. Some people prefer quiet moderates. Doesn't bug me.
I go work in my LD's house candidate's office nearly every day. There are nothing but Dean people there. Our brand-new candidate for the other position in our house race ran striaght to DFA to help launch her campaign, cuz her son is a Deanie.
These things speak volumes to me, and is what really matters.
...Ben in Redmond
your friendly neighbourhood
Eside DFA Meetup host
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