Howard Dean: What's he doing?? [View All]

[maddiejoan]

To my mind he's either brilliant --or a folly.

But let's look at what's going on --and how it fulfills his "50 State strategy".

Two incredibly strong Democratic Candidates in primary battles in all 50 states. Two candidates, BTW, that of all the candidates we fielded are the most similar in policy.

How can this be bad? Democratic voter participation is at unprecedented levels, even though we are seeing what looks like a bloody skirmish.
(and really --it is anything but) Democrats in the news --constantly --very little news about the Republican nominee.

How can THAT be bad?

Now the part everyone will think I'm a lunatic about.

Dean says this will be settled before the convention. It most likely will too. In fact, I'm betting it was settled months ago.

--and that's because, ever since Edwards dropped out so "he wouldn't be in the way of a historic candidacy", what we've had is a battle over which one of these two candidates will be at the top of the Democratic ticket.

That's right, folks --It's Dean's "fifty state strategy" in play --and the ONLY way it was ever gonna work is if Obama and Hillary have both agreed to play this out until every last state has participated...and that means it's already been worked out --it's Hillary and Obama --or Obama and Hillary, and I will bet any amount of money, this was brokered the day Edwards suspended his campaign.

I'm pretty much banking on it coming out as Obama/Clinton at this point (I'd prefer the other way), but there ya have it.

If this is, in fact, what Dean has engineered --then he's a goddamned genius.