January 01, 2004
DEMOCRATS VS. DEAN:
Flynn: Dems ignore Catholics (David R. Guarino, December 31, 2003, Boston Herald)
Former Vatican Ambassador Raymond L. Flynn yesterday accused Democrats of ignoring a ``swing'' bloc of Catholic voters who could hand President Bush re-election next year.
As Democratic presidential candidates spent another day criticizing Howard Dean as ill-prepared for the White House, Flynn chastised them for ``ducking'' real issues such as abortion and gay marriage.
``There is a forum for the black voters, there's another forum for the feminists and women voters, there's another candidate forum for organized labor,'' Flynn told the Herald. ``That doesn't happen with the most significant voting bloc in the country, the Catholic vote.''
Flynn, in an opinion column published in the Manchester Union-Leader, said Democrats are writing off more than 40 percent of the Granite State's voters by ignoring Catholics.
Carville: Dean Suffering From 'Political Lobotomy' (NewsMax, 1/01/04)
Top Clinton advisor James Carville is blasting Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean for making a series of devastating gaffes in recent weeks, saying the ex-Vermont governor sounds like he's suffering from a "political lobotomy.""I'm scared to death that this guy just says anything," Carville said Monday while cohosting CNN's "Crossfire." "It feels like he's undergone some kind of a political lobotomy here."
Carville's comment suggesting that Dean sounds crazy is the harshest assessment yet by any Democrat - and is especially damaging coming from a charter member of the Clintons' inner circle.
Ironically, Dean himself admitted two weeks ago that he's a volatile personality, saying he was so easily provoked by critics that he sometimes needs to be "restrained."
Neither Ed Koch's nor Zell Miller's will be the most talked about Democratic endorsement of George W. Bush for re-election. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 1, 2004 07:48 PM
This just seems to be the Clinton camp hitting back after Dean dissed 'em.
Posted by: Michael Herdegen at January 2, 2004 05:23 AMJust when an upright, independent-thinking Dem could start bemoaning not having a Bill Clinton to consider supporting (say against a Howard Dean), that he/she has to be reminded that Bill Clinton's army was commandeered by people like James Carville. Some choices, an honest Dem has.
Posted by: MG at January 2, 2004 09:13 AMOK, I'll bite, who will be the most talked about Democratic Bush endorser? If he had a spine, it would be Joe Lieberman, but he proved in 2000 that that's too much to hope for.
Posted by: David Cohen at January 2, 2004 10:01 AMAt least one Senate Democrat who's running for re-election will endorse him--Blanche Lincoln, Evan Bayh, etc..
Posted by: oj at January 2, 2004 10:11 AMIt comes down to the first question that every Republican House and Senate candidate should ask: "is my opponent voting for Howard Dean?".
Posted by: jim hamlen at January 2, 2004 12:47 PM