Why Dean Can Win Next November

[txdude10]

Here is an interesting take on Dean from two Republican pollsters:

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_reinhard/index.ssf?/base/editorial/106829671744920.xml

[Larkspur]

1. And today, he got the 2 plus million supporters that he needed

prior to the Dem national convention.

All we have to do is convince the newcomers to donate $100 a piece and we can blow Bush/Rove machine out of the White House and back to Tumbleweed, TX.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. I gave some money in the early

days,

Will probably give more as soon as we move and I see about
that cost... and whether we can afford it

[wtmusic]

2. Thanks -- great link

I heard the same thing out of an RW station in TX last month.

[xultar]

7. You heard the same thing on a RW radio station...now there has

gotta be something going on...

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I have seen Dean's potencial

for this for months,

He will do for the dmeocrats, in many ways, what Reagan did
for the Repukes (yuk even talking of reagan)

but it is true, is true...

And that is why Rove has severely miscalculated

[CertainKindOfFool]

5. Dean

Make no mistake, Dean WILL win next Novemeber.

THE TEA IS IN THE HARBOR

[xultar]

6. So, does anyone think it is strange Republican Pollsters are

saying why Dean can win?

Don't get me wrong. I do believe he will get the nomination. But come on when have Republican Pollsters given any Democrat any positve press.

[vi5]

8. Here's the law of candidate supporters....

If a republican says something nice about my candidate it is because he has a broad appeal and proof that he can win in '04.
If a republican says something bad about my candidate it means they are afraid and is proof that he can win '04.

[xultar]

9. You are more than likely accurate on that account.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

10. LOL! But what's missing from the article?

Dean's weakness on national defense- the very thing he used to whomp Carter.

[0rganism]

11. It was strange to read that from Reinhard, a local GOP shill

He usually has nothing but contempt for anything left of Franco, but that editorial almost read like a sober analysis -- little digs at the end about "driving to distraction" aside.

However, I can't help but wonder if his remarks aren't part of a Rovian strategy to set up a weak general election candidate to win the Democratic primary. Has Karl Rove miscalculated, or does he have the magic bullet that will bring ruin to a Dean campaign? Somehow, something just seems contrived about republicans proclaiming the merits of Howard Dean prior to the nomination. It has that "don't throw me in the briar patch" ambience.

The pukes have an ace or three up their sleeves, or they wouldn't be letting Democrats (any of 'em) off the hook. It'd be nonstop scandal, scandal, scandal, if they were really afraid of losing in 2004.

[leyton]

12. Indeed...

I disagreed with a couple of the author's assumptions. I think passion is a good thing to have, but I'm not sure that anger will help Dean. And with the aforementioned national security issue. While I believe Dean has a good shot (especially with a good ticket) there are a enough holes in the columnist's arguments to make me question his motives.

[kaitykaity]

13. I did a triple-take when I saw that headline

with Reinhard attached. You guys are right, there's
something smelly going on there (although I disagree
that Dean would be a weak GE candidate, but that's
another topic).

The anger is why I was attacted to Dean as a
candidate. I hate George W. Bush almost as much as
Mike Malloy does, and I hear that passion in Dean.
I can't be alone in that.