Howard Dean Article - Salon.com
Howard Dean, Life of the Democratic Party. Garance Franke-Ruta, the senior editor at the American Prospect who captured one of the most powerful moments of Howard Dean's June 23rd Great American Restoration announcement, pens today's must-read in Salon (free registration required). Al From and Bruce Reed, who penned an anti-Dean memo to the DLC in May, are missing the point about Dean, Franke-Ruta writes:
So far, From and Reed's warnings to the Democratic Party, to the extent that they've reached the rank and file at all, appear to have had no impact on Dean's campaign, which has surged in fundraising, volunteer support and national and state polls. If anything, the DLC's attacks have increased support for the Dean campaign.... That's because rather than running as McGovern, Dean seems to be running according to the campaign playbook outlined by none other than From and Reed in their very smart Feb. 11 memo, "What It Takes to Win the White House."
"Your most formidable opponent," the duo wrote, "isn't President Bush or your fellow contestants for the nomination. Your real enemy is the ghost of Democrats past...
What From and Reed did not realize is that their DLC would become the Democratic ghost against which an insurgent Dean would run.
Rather than running against the Democratic Party of 1972, Dean is running against the DLC-dominated (in image, if not in fact) Democratic Party that lost the House in 1994, the White House in 2000, and the Senate in 2000 and again in 2002. This, too, is just as From and Reed advised, though they seem to have forgotten that. [Blog for America]
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