Howard Dean on CNN looked like he just won the lottery

[bklyncowgirl]

Dean's grin can sometimes look a bit forced but in this interview he just looked like he was ready to start dancing any minute.

Those internal polls must look real good.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Let's hope he's right.

On the other hand, the RW squawkin heads in my area covering mundane topics this afternoon. They must know something, too.

[Tempest]

2. Hell, the external polls look real good

Everyone has the Democrats making enough gains to easily control the House, and most have the Dems taking enough Senate seats for a majority.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Amazing what a few nukes and some meth can do

Just think! Rethugs insisting on posting A-bomb instructions on the internet. B'sh's "spiritual counselor" admitting to buying meth & possibly linked to a gay hooker.

I'm smiling too. :evilgrin:

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. What next?

Pictures of Bush doing the dirty with Victor Ashe?

[mnhtnbb]

4. Yeah, Howard, but remember what the media did to your 'scream'?

[LiberalEsto]

7. If we win big, he can scream all he wants

and we'll scream with him.

[mnhtnbb]

8. And you can bet the media won't replay this one 900 times

[Justitia]

5. He did great didn't he? He had great answers about the old RW taxes canard. -eom

[pa28]

6. Plenty of things to like about the new polls.

Especially the fact we have a wider victory margin among likely voters than registered voters. Normally it seems to be the other way around.

Republicans will be voting with beer and a remote this year and I don't blame them.

[movonne]

9. My only worry about this is DIEBOLD! because I know we would

win and win big if it was not for them...

[Graybeard]

10. 50 state strategy. Bingo!

Dean is going to win big on Tuesday in more ways than one.
Watch the West. Once red strongholds are going blue. Dean said
not to concede ANY states. He was right.

[jaysunb]

11. In the words of James Brown

You sold me out
for chicken change

get ready you mother...
for, THE BIG PAYBACK !

[otohara]

12. Hugs & Kisses to Dr. Dean

from that woman who sat next to you in Denver at a luncheon. We owe you....big time!

[applegrove]

13. He must be very proud of his strategy. n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

15. When (not 'if') we win, the good doctor will be even happier - exonerated

His strategy will have beens hown to be the key. No race left unopposed. Look at where we are. We're leading in districts no Dem even ever heard of before!

THTAT is the result of his 50 state strategy, pure and simple.

[flpoljunkie]

16. Dean was really good. Here's the transcript of the interview.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/03/sitroom.01.html

HOWARD DEAN, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: Thanks for having me, Wolf.

BLITZER: Four days to go. Four very long days.

DEAN: The longest four days in our lives, right?

BLITZER: The president sort of has a new line his stump speech that's been going out today.

Listen to this little clip.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There's still time for the Democrats to tell the American people their plan to prevail in this war on terror. So if you happen to bump into a Democrat candidate, you might want to ask this simple question -- what's your plan?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BLITZER: All right, well, you're not a Democratic candidate. You're just the leader of the Democratic Party.

DEAN: Oh, I'll be happy to...

BLITZER: What's the Democrats' plan to deal with the terror threat?

Because he says by voting against the surveillance program, by taking steps against the Patriot Act, the Democrats are abdicating, in effect, the war on terror.

DEAN: Well, the truth is that you can't trust the Republicans to defend America. Look at their record. They had identified three countries that were a problem. North Korea just exploded a nuclear weapon. Iran is working on getting one. And we're in a civil war in Iraq. Osama bin Laden is still at large.

I don't think the president has had a plan for national security since he's been in office.

Here's our plan. One, capture or kill Osama bin Laden and put the troops in Afghanistan that are necessary to do that. Two, redeploy our troops in Iraq, bring home the National Guard and Reserve, keep a special operations force in the region to deal with terrorist attacks. Three, cooperate with other countries instead of trying to bully them, so we can get nuclear weapons one of the hands of the North Koreans. And be tougher on Iran.

So, we have a plan. The president hasn't showed us his plan. He didn't have a plan when he got into Iraq. He didn't tell the truth when he got into Iraq, and he doesn't know what to do now that he's there.

BLITZER: He says, though, and other administration officials say that if you simply pull out of Iraq right now, it will, inevitable, become another Afghanistan, a terrorist stronghold, perhaps aligned with Iran, and that's going to further endanger America.

DEAN: First of all, I don't know a Democrat that's talking about pulling out of Iraq right now. I do know a lot of Democrats who don't believe that the president has served us well by going in there.

We know that we have a problem. We know that we have to gradually disengage from Iraq. The president has no plan to do that.

Staying the course with a strategy that doesn't work is not a plan.

Secondly, the president is wrong. I don't think he ever understood Iraq when we went in and I don't think he understands Iraq now. The biggest danger to Iraq is not that it will turn into a terrorist state. The biggest danger to Iraq is that it will partition and destabilize eastern Turkey. I haven't heard a word about that from the president.

Eastern Turkey is a very important American ally. The president had no plan, had no knowledge when he was getting into this that he could result in destabilizing one of our own allies.

BLITZER: The other fear that the Republicans are raising, especially the vice president, Dick Cheney, is that if the Democrats take the Senate, take the House, Americans are going to be paying more income tax.

Listen to what Cheney said in Idaho yesterday.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I noticed that now, on the verge of the election, the leader of the House Democrats, Nancy Pelosi...

(BOOS)

CHENEY: Claims, she claims that Democratic leaders love tax cuts.

(LAUGHTER)

CHENEY: That only invites another look at her party's record on taxes.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BLITZER: Whose taxes are going to go up if the Democrats have their way?

DEAN: Well, if you'll pardon my expression, Nancy Pelosi is a lot more of a straight shooter than the vice president is.

The fact of the matter is we're not going to -- not only are we not going to raise taxes on middle class Americans, we're going to try to find a way to cut them.

We are, however, going to rescind all those huge tax breaks that the president and the vice president and the Republicans gave to the oil companies when they were charging us $3 a gallon. That's not money that should go to oil companies. That's money that should be used to balance the budget and to restore Pell grants so middle class kids can go to college again.

BLITZER: What's going to happen on Tuesday? What's your prediction as far as the Senate and the House of Representatives?

DEAN: I don't have a prediction, Wolf. I've been in this business a long time. You do not make predictions about this kind of stuff. My prediction is, however, that the American people want real change in this country. They want a new direction. My prediction is we'll give them one.

BLITZER: You know, there's going to be a lot of demoralized Democrats out there. They can taste victory, certainly in the House, almost in the Senate. It's going to be much more difficult in the Senate, as you well know. There's going to be a lot of demoralized, depressed Democrats out there if you don't win.

DEAN: Well, maybe so. But I would hope that that wouldn't happen, because this is a long-term struggle to take back this country so that we can be the great moral leader of the world once again.

We're going to do things a lot differently than we have in the past, should we prevail, should the voters restore Democrats to power.

The first thing we're going to do is avoid the polarization that the president has used to govern for the last six years. We're going to welcome everybody. We're going to respectfully talk to the people who don't agree with us, because they probably have some good ideas about how to run-America, as well. We're going to respect people's beliefs in their families.

We want to heal America and yes, there will be a lot of partisanship, because the Republicans have basically divided this country bitterly in the last six years.

We need -- if you want to make America work, we've got to be in it together.

BLITZER: Governor Howard Dean is the chairman of the Democratic Party.

Governor, thanks very much.

DEAN: Wolf, thanks again.