Posted on 11/12/2005 12:38:24 PM PST by wagglebee
After eight months as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, how is Howard Dean doing? Poorly -- at least from a financial perspective.
Republicans are handily winning the fundraising race by nearly a 2-to-1 margin, reports the Washington Post. That massive imbalance has caught the attention of Democratic leaders, who are worried the party will suffer as a result in the 2006 midterm elections.
Dean, a former Vermont governor, assumed the top DNC job amid questions from leading Democrats who wondered if he was suited for a job that traditionally has centered on fundraising. The latest figures are an indication those concerns were well founded.
From January through September, the Republican National Committee raised $81.5 million, with $34 million remaining in the bank. The DNC, by contrast, showed $42 million raised and $6.8 million in the bank.
"The degree to which the fundraising has not been competitive is obviously troublesome," former Rep. Vic Fazio, D-Calif., told the Post. He expressed confidence in Tom McMahon, Dean's executive director at the DNC.
One House Democratic leadership aide put it more bluntly: "There is plenty of time, but the red flashing sirens should be going off there."
Soros, your phone is ringing.
Do we have a shot at stopping Hillary in 2006 and / or 2008? She can get so much momentum behind her that she becomes invincible, what with Slick Willie as a husband, don't you think? Giuliani's polling within striking range for the NY Senate seat, but will he even run? Meanwhile, Condi Rice won't run, will she?
How can that be since they swept New Jersey and Virginia?
Watchusay? The King of the Internet can't raise big bucks?
As for Condi Rice, the only person really pushing her candidacy is Dick Morris. Morris is a long time Klintoon insider, the fact that they didn't destroy him after he "betrayed" them leads me to believe that he is still doing their bidding.
I think the very best GOP candidate in 2008 is George Allen with possibly Rice or Guiliani as his running mate.
hahahahahaha
The REAL story of how and why Dean lost the 2004 primaries has to do with how he misused his early fundraising lead on mis-placed advertising.... he ran out of gas at the wrong time, after wasting almost $50 million early.
so, smile and know that this coming train wreck can be predicted.
"I think the very best GOP candidate in 2008 is George Allen"
I agree!
That's exactly it. These clowns thought Dean would raise beaucoup bucks in the Chairman's position because he did it in his Presidential campaign. I'm not sure who I like more, Dean or Terry McAuliffe. Both have been good for the Republican cause.
As DFU stated, George Soros has mucho dinero available to be used for the Dems. (DFU said billions.) We should not be comforted by the above. We need to keep giving and supporting the GOP.
"That massive imbalance has caught the attention of Democratic leaders, who are worried the party will suffer as a result in the 2006 midterm elections.
How can that be since they swept New Jersey and Virginia?"
They 'swept' those two states about as well as they did in 2001. Given that in 2001, it was right after 9/11 and Bush had 80% approval ratings, and now he is in the dumps comparatively ... maybe it tells you not to read too much into those results nationally.
You mean the fact that they were able to keep the status quo in New Jersey and LOST the Lt. Governor's post in Virginia?
I remember how everyone was saying after the governors races were lost in 2001 in NJ and VA that the 'Rats would retake the House and get a clear majority in the Senate in 2002; however, the GOP won bigtime in 2002.
"As DFU stated, George Soros has mucho dinero available to be used for the Dems. (DFU said billions.) We should not be comforted by the above. We need to keep giving and supporting the GOP."
Point being - the Dem party is in bad shape, but liberal special interest groups are as flush as ever.
They are hippies damn it, they don't have any money!
"How can that be since they swept New Jersey and Virginia?"
LOL. I wish more Freepers understand how you understand it.
The handwringing and weeping would be hilarious if it weren't so serious.
The big money on the left has always come from very wealthy people such as George Soros, they haven't run out.
Allen and Michael Steele.
Regards, Ivan
Snicker....
That's what happens when you depend on the birkenstock crowd to contribute money they won't share.
I think any of them would be great; however, I think the most likely scenario is probably Allen/Romney if Romney is in a position to deliver Massachusetts or Guiliani if he could deliver New York.
America clearly doesn't want Hillary in the White house, despite what the MSM try to tell us.
And we shouldn't want Condi as our nominee if we want to win.
Inflation in marijuana may force them to reevaluate their priorities.
"Republicans are handily winning the fundraising race by nearly a 2-to-1 margin..."
And we are going to seriously need this cash! Until they change direction on a few issues, none of it will be coming from me, however. I'll work locally and give my time, but nationally? Fuggedaboudit.
And I agree. That sucking sound you hear when near the DNC coffers? That's Hitlery, sucking all the money and all of the air out of the room.
1) 2006: No
2008: Yes
2) Slick will not help her win one Red State, and she'll probably lose NH nd OR.
3) Giuliani is going to run for president/vice president.
4) Rice will not run, she'll probably return to academia.
Somebody has tho say this so here goes: The money dean raised during last year was to an important extent CONSERVATIVE MONEY FROM CONSERVATIVES HOPING HE WOULD BE THE RAT NOMINEE!!!!!!
No some ratmedia lurker is laugh, but Freepers know the truth.
Who can stop Hillary for our GOP in 2008?
The left wing base funded their 2004 I-Hate_Bush effort with borrowed money.
Think about that. It is true.
A lot of house refinancings generated cash and those idiots sent it to losers.
Now the piper is at the door to be paid.
What, Dean low on fundraising? LOL Hitlery and Bill probably slipped under the radar and stole it.
She's doing the same thing she did to Al Gore. She basically called all the big money donors and told them to hold off.
And .. if this is a sign that the dems are going to take back the House in '06 - it's not a very good sign.
Was on a forum yesterday in which a lady announced she would be voting for Hillary - couldn't stand Bill but would vote for his wife. I didn't even respond to her - she's got 4 kids who are in and out of jail. She must feel a kinship to Hillary.
They burned about 250 million in the 2005 races.
1) George Allen
2) Mark Sandford
3) Rudy Giuliani
4) John McCain (RINO)
I am highly suspicious of Dick Morris. On one hand he comes off as 'critical' of the Toons but on the other hand he's 'allowed' to do it. Methinks he's still working for them in a subtle kind of way.
By the way a Condi Rice nomination is so stupid and ridiculous it's not even funny. Are Republicans so desperate to show they're not racists that they'll pretend this woman is qualified or fit for the office?
If you add the beast's funds to Dean's, it's much closer.
Conservatives are allowed to criticize the Klintoons, but I have never seen a former Clintonista "defect" without suffering serious consequences.
Now that's a funny comment! Most of our VP's have been picked just for the voters they could bring to the ticket. Cheney is the first truly able VP we've had in ages.
Tell me how qualified Gore, Quayle, Agnew, Mondale, etc. were?
Zero.
and / or 2008?
Possible, but unlikely.
Giuliani's polling within striking range for the NY Senate seat, but will he even run?
Not a chance.
Meanwhile, Condi Rice won't run, will she?
No.
You have absolutely nailed it.
Coming from you that's a big deal -- do I get my own song or something? -:)
Billionaires in Secret Meeting to Defeat Bush Administration
From NewsMax --
"Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004 1:09 p.m. EDT
Billionaires Secretly Met in Aspen to Defeat Bush
In the days following the Democratic National Convention in Boston this past August, several billionaire Democratic activists secretly met at the famed Aspen Institute in Colorado.
The purpose of their clandestine meeting was "to use their fortunes to engineer the defeat of President George W. Bush in the 2000 election," The New Yorker magazine reports in its most recent edition.
Details of the meeting remain sketchy, but the magazine described the Aspen conference this way: "Five billionaires joined half a dozen liberal leaders in a lengthy conversation about the future of progressive politics in America."...
When The New Yorker inquired about the meeting, an assistant to one of the attendees was surprised by the call.
"No one was supposed to know about this," the aide told the magazine. "We don’t want people thinking it’s a cabal or some sort of Masonic plot!"
Apparently the leader of the secret cabal is billionaire Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Cleveland, Ohio-based insurance company Progressive Corporation.
Like another attendee, wealthy financier George Soros, Lewis has poured millions into Democratic 527 groups, including Americans Coming Together and MoveOn.org.
One of Lewis’ top agenda items has been the decriminalization of marijuana, a policy position also shared by Soros.
Another billionaire who attended was John Sperling, founder of the online University of Phoenix.
Also present were Herb and Marion Sandler from California. The couple founded Golden West Financial Corporation, a California bank reportedly worth $17 billion...
The wealthiest and most notable of those attending the meeting was George Soros, the 74-year-old Hungarian immigrant who desperately wants to defeat George Bush and has even compared him to the likes of Adolf Hitler.
Apparently, all was not roses at the billionaire confab, according to The New Yorker.
"The billionaires spent much of the time moaning the superior powers of the GOP," the magazine said, and the group even needed some cheerleading from Harold Ickes, a former top aide to Bill Clinton who is involved in the 527 efforts...
Though not the leader of the group, Soros holds the largest bank account and as such is the 800-pound gorilla, having given more than $18 million to the 527s in an effort to defeat Bush...
Soros hired a publicist and began a 12-city, $3 million personal crusade to defeat George Bush.
According to the magazine, Soros has nothing but contempt for Bush, who he considers "an ignorant fool."
More than that, he sees Bush as the face man for a secret cabal. "Bush was just chosen as a figurehead, an acceptable face for a sinister group," Soros told The New Yorker, adding, "Cheney is the Capo."
Clearly, Soros knows a thing or two about secret cabals and capos."
Mark
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