The Case for Dean

[bryant69]

I didn't support Howard Dean in the Primaries (I favored John Edwards), but I do think he would make an excellent Party Chair. He's smart and he's articulate. I think he would be good at fighting the Republican Party, and I think he could go a long way towards uniting the Democratic Party. Let's face it we need both moderate Democrats and more liberal Democrats, and he is the guy who can bring them together.

But mostly, he's just not the sort of guy who will put up with any crap. We need a guy who is going to make us proud to stand with the Democratic Party--I think he's the guy who has the best chance of accomplishing that.

'Course I could be wrong.

Bryant
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[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. I'm in your boat.

I think he'll turn us into fighters and not cowards. We need someone like him as party chair. And like you, I did not favor him in the primaries either (I supported Gephardt).

[impeachthescoundrel]

2. I'm proud already

[katsy]

3. He would be a fine chair.

I didn't support Dean in the primaries.

With the first rumblings of Dean for DNC chair started after the election... I posted here that I didn't support him for chair.

After much research on my part prompted by issues raised here by DU'ers, both for and against Dean, I trust Dean would do a fine job as chair. I would have no problem with Dean or Rosenberg or both as a joint chairmanship.

DU has been an education.

My thanks to all contributors!

[Dean Quixote]

4. I don't like his pro-NAFTA agenda

but none of the choices for chair are much better.

[mandyky]

10. Dean no longer is Pro-NAFTA

He actually listened to Iowans and other Midwesterners, and believes Trade should be fair, not free.

[WLKjr]

5. Dean and the DNC

I am waiting for the day, I call it now. You WILL see unprecedented fundraising, grassroots organizing and more participation in the democratic/progressive/liberal/green/libertarian cause. Dean will revamp the entire party and make it proud again. Mark my words, he will do it. I am behind him 110% for his bid for DNC chair.

[Maddy McCall]

6. I disagree about the "articulate" part, especially after his remarks...

about the South. No way this guy can bring the South back to blue on a fed level.

[sherilocks]

8. While most of us here pay attention to politics

most people don't. The apolitical southern person's greatest fear is that the Democrats will personally take away all their guns. If anyone can articulate that he will not do this, it's Dean.

[candy331]

11. McCall with Tennessee cutting 0ver 300,000 people off Medicaid, Fla about

to privatize Medicaid along with all the rest Jebbie has privatized and it will tank, a Walmart economy is going to fail the South/red states sooner than later, so unless they like eating their own babies they better realize they have been had and reevaluate what Dean was trying to get them to understand. Dean said what others have been too timid to say and they will remember who cared about them and who only wanted their vote.

[Triana]

7. DNC Needs Dean!

He'll shake 'em up but good and they / we NEED that!

[patricia92243]

9. Amen!

[bigwillq]

12. Dean has my support

I think he be a fine chairman. He has great vision, is intellingent, will stand up to the right-wing bullshit, has already proven he can rally his supporters, has done a outstanding job with fundraising, and I think overall, his views and issues of importance, I feel, extend throughout the party in general and are not inclusive to a certain "type" of democratic supporter.

[KT2000]

13. I support him too

after watching all the candidates at a forum (on C-SPAN)

The other candidates had good qualities but Dean was the only one who showed something like a true life force - energy, authority and confidence.
I have the feeling that the DNC has been running like someone's latest managment theory. It has become dreary and alien to the grassroots.

Dean may say the wrong thing one time or another but he will not be a mamby pamby. As we have seen by the publics' response to idiot son's many stupid comments, mistakes are not a biggie - but being wimpy is the worst in the times we are in.

[Adelante]

14. I didn't support him either

But I do think he is the right candidate for DNC chair. The party's got some serious self-searching to do if it is to ever win another election. Dean asks the right questions and the leadership will have to come up with some answers.

[H2O Man]

15. I agree ....

DNC Chairmen organize around ideas. Dean's ideas seem to best represent the direction we need to move in. I suspect that for many American families, the war in Iraq will take on new meaning in 2005. I'd like a DNC Chair who was opposed to the Bush invasion from day one. I'd also like someone who is creative and daring enough to talk to Arab leaders and Islamic people other than the Saudi "royal family." Dean is the best bet.