February 10, 2005
X-RAYS OF DEMOCRATIC SOUL PROVE NEGATIVE:
Repairing the Democratic Tent (Tim Roemer, February 10, 2005, Washington Post)
November's presidential election has caused Democrats to do some soul-searching. The cold, hard facts call for bold conversation and new ideas within our party.According to the National Committee for an Effective Congress, Democrats lost 97 of the 100 fastest-growing counties in America. The National Election Pool's exit data show that between the elections of 2000 and 2004 we lost ground with a wide array of voting groups, including Catholics, Latinos, African Americans and married voters. Four weeks ago I entered the race for the Democratic National Committee chairmanship to address these disturbing trends and to talk about the issues that affected voters' choice between President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry.
And after that three month search, having failed to find a soul, they made Howard Dean, who even voters in IA had rejected as unelectable, the leader of the Party. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 10, 2005 2:45 PM
The meek shall inherit. To win, you gotta first lose and lose big. We're talking values, the underdog, and pity, along with thirst for change.
He's preparing the ground in what is really a very sophisticated long-term strategy.
It'll all pay off in either 2024 or 2028. Assuming there still is a Democratic Party, of course.
Posted by: Barry Meislin at February 10, 2005 3:25 PMOK then. The party of the culture of death searched its soul and decided to keep on dying. Who better to help ease it on down the road than Dr. Howard (Kevorkian) Dean.
Posted by: Luciferous at February 10, 2005 3:32 PMCold, hard facts mean nothing to the Democrats. Kennedy, Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, and Dean can just keep making up new ones. Nice fuzzy squishy ones.
Posted by: jim hamlen at February 11, 2005 9:09 AM