"I hate Republicans...."
Posted on 02/07/2005 10:37:17 AM PST by areafiftyone
WASHINGTON - Tim Roemer, the only remaining opponent of Howard Dean (news - web sites) in the race to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites), said Monday he's bowing out of the race — but he offered a warning to Democrats.
Dean, the former presidential candidate and governor of Vermont, is expected to win the DNC chairmanship at the election Feb. 12.
Roemer, a former congressman from Indiana and a member of the Sept. 11 commission, said Democrats must be more inclusive in their outreach to fast-growing parts of the country.
"I got into this race five weeks ago to talk about the devastating loss we experienced in November," Roemer said in an interview. "It was not about 60,000 votes in Ohio. It was about losing 97 of the 100 fastest growing counties in the country. If that's a trend in business or politics you're in trouble."
Republicans are in the strongest position they've been in since the early 20th century, Roemer said.
Roemer, who said top Democrats in Congress encouraged him to enter the chairman's race, said he wants to strengthen Democrats' position on national security.
"If there's one reason Senator Kerry lost the presidential race, it was because he failed to make the American people feel safer," Roemer said, adding that he also wanted to encourage talk within the party about developing a stronger position on values.
Roemer said he hoped to make the party more inclusive, especially on the issue of abortion. He opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest and the health of the mother.
His opposition to abortion rights sparked early opposition in the race from abortion choice advocates.
Aides to Dean, the only candidate standing from the original seven-man field, said he continues to make calls to DNC members to assure his choice as chairman.
Dean has said he will focus his efforts as chairman more on building the party at the local, state and national level, raising money and winning elections, while elected officials will be more responsible for policy positions.
Well it sounds like this guy Roemer gets it. So why just he want to leave the Dem chairmanship to Dean? Apparently those who "get it" are not allowed to lead dems pretending they didn't get routed in Nov.
If he'd like to support a position of a strong America, he can do that now... Just not in the DNC.
Further evidence, as if any were needed, that Karl Rove is secretly pulling the strings to select the next chair of the DNC. This is just too much fun!
Pay no attention to the man behind the booth!
LOL!!!
The total annihilation of the liberal Democrat party is going into full speed.
Time for Dean's supporters to break out the victory drinks - kool-aid!
Roemer is a rare species, a demonRAT with a brain. His type is on the verge of extinction in the DemonRAT party. He knows what is wrong with his party but like Ronald Reagan, Bill Bennett, Condi Rice and many other democrats before him the only solution is to join us. I think he knows it, but it is a painful admission, to acknowledge that you have been wrong ... for your whole career.
"I hate Republicans...."
Back in the 90's when we was in Congress Roemer came to my 11th Grade history class. I was solidly Right at a young age and gave the guy as hard a time as I could but he came across as reasonable, rational, and a decent guy. There is obviously no future for him in the Democratic party.
You obviously didn't see his treatment of Condi in the 9-11 Hearings. Idiologically blindfolded for life.
It was maddening to watch him denigrate her, while knowing he's not morally fit to clean her toilet.
If you think Kerry was killed by his flip flops then you have seen nothing yet when Hillary Clinton try to move to the middle. The 2004 election taught us few very important things:
1. A majority of the American voters are smart enough to see fake, lies, and flip flops.
2. The DLM (defeated liberal media) cannot protect the democrat liberal candidates anymore. They will be exposed by the new media (radio talk shows, Internet, Foxnews, etc..). In case of Hillary the radio talk shows are already destroying any attempt she is planning to make to the so called middle and try to fool people. She is caught red handed.
Oh, yes indeed. Nobody in the Rat party seems to remember that Dean lost in the earliest primaries. He didn't have a chance, because moderate liberals don't like his kind of politics.
They're absolutely blind to everything. It IS very amusing!
I can't wait to see what they do with religion - they don't "get" religion; they'll probably pray that the abortion doctors are successful rather than praying for the lives of the unborn, for example. Total idiots.
The only surprise here is that the DNC folks didn't burn Roemer at the stake on the first day. I'm frankly shocked he stayed in so long.
Roemer should have known better. People like him ( like Zell Miller, Scoop Jackson, perhaps JFK,...) went out of style in the Deomcratic party long ago.
So, the Dems once again have chosen death. One only hopes their choice of Dr. Dean will abort their own party and all the vile things it has come to stand for.
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