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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 12:14 PM
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Article illustrates why the party will remain status quo.
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I don't agree with all of this, but the parts about the party core are pretty much right on. Change in the party will not come easy at all. This is a fairly thoughtful article. I agree with parts, not all..but it shows that politics is not for the people anymore.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/17/opinion/meyer/main656325.shtml
SNIP.."The team that got Bush elected in 2000 was Texan: Karl Rove, Joe Allbaugh, Karen Hughes, Don Evans, and Mark McKinnon. Washingtonians made fun of them and now live off them. The same basic team ran the 2004 campaign; they didn't cede control to K Street and Massachusetts Avenue think tanks.

The Clinton team did. The '92 campaign had some old DC hands but was dominated by out-of-towners: Betsy Wright, James Carville, Paul Begala, Eli Segal, Bruce Lindsey, and David Wilhelm. Carville is now too famous to be inside.

The people who have run every Democratic campaign since '92 are now a revolving door of established Beltwayistas (even if a few actually live in New York): Bob ("0-8") Shrum, Terry McAuliffe, Harold Ickes, Doug Sosnik, Joe Lockhart, Mike McCurry, Mary Beth Cahill, Jamie Rubin, Stan Greenberg, Carville and Begala.

SNIP.."And they aren't going to give up control of the party, the DNC and fundraising apparatus. They ate Howard Dean's lunch. And they lost the general election.

And now they're going to try to find a Southern governor to remake in Clinton's image, give him a chain saw and teach him how to say special moral values words like "God, pray, faith, sin and 'ppreciate your vote."

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