January 9, 2004

MOM, THEY'RE PICKIN' ON ME!:

Dean Calls for End to 'Gotcha' Politics (Reuters, 1/09/04)

Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean called the Iowa caucuses invaluable on Friday and pleaded for an end to "gotcha politics'' as he tried to contain fallout from a 2000 interview in which he criticized the process.

Tapes from a Canadian public affairs program showed the former Vermont governor arguing that the lengthy caucuses, in which local residents gather to debate their choices, was inconvenient for ordinary people and "dominated by special interests.''

"I'm a little tired of the gotcha politics of this campaign,'' Dean said on CNN's Inside Politics. "We've got to stop this gotcha stuff. We've got to get beyond this.''


In our neighborhood, we had a name for the kids who liked rough-housing until they started to lose, then ran crying for an adult to break it up.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 9, 2004 7:23 PM
Comments

"Liberal?"

"Democrat?"

"Raiders fan?"

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 9, 2004 8:56 PM

Howie doesn't like it when the "Democratic" wing starts biting him in the hindquarters. Just wait until the Republican arrows are quivered. Whom will he complain to then? Peter Jennings? Katie Couric?

Posted by: jim hamlen at January 9, 2004 9:30 PM

Mr. Hamlen: But Jennings and Couric will concur that the big bad GOP is just so mean and evil and should be taken out to the woodshed. They can't make the same case over other Dems.

Posted by: Buttercup at January 10, 2004 7:38 AM

I saw a piece last night that fliers are popping up in Iowa saying all sorts of nasty evil things about Dean - and that fliers are popping up in NH saying all sorts of nasty evil things about Clark.

Will the media attack like they did in SC (when Bush was the suspect)? Uhmmm, no. Someone should ask them about it.

Posted by: jim hamlen at January 10, 2004 8:37 AM

That name for the kid who ran crying for an adult, might that also be a name synonomous with "small kitty"?

Buttercup is right, though, with the GOP start going after him he will find all the comfort he needs from Jennings, Couric and the rest of the criminal liberal media.

Posted by: MarkD at January 10, 2004 5:54 PM
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