Democrats: The fix is on [Howie "The Screamer" Dean's strategery

The Washington Times ^ | 3 Apr 08 | Donald Lambro

[seanmerc]

Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean has a plan that will produce a nominee before his party's convention in August, avoiding what he fears could be a "really ugly and nasty" fiasco.

Democratic leaders have begun complaining he has bungled the party's nominating process and alienated voters because of his failure to engineer a political compromise in the DNC's ill-advised decision to strip Florida and Michigan of all its delegates. But Mr. Dean, whose polls show the party's internecine warfare is hurting its chances in November, has been talking to party bigwigs about a deal and now says the delegations will be seated before the nominating roll of the states is called.

The conventional wisdom says the battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will go all the way to the convention. But Mr. Dean wants it over well before that, and possibly before the last of the 10 remaining primaries are completed in June. And it is likely that will happen.

The scenario Mr. Dean and party leaders fear most is a bitter political floor fight in Denver that will deeply divide the party and send a message to the country that if the Democrats can't govern themselves, how can they govern the country?

"There'll be some nasty fights if it goes to convention, and people will walk out," Mr. Dean told the Associated Press last week in an unusually blunt interview in which he said the candidates' bitter infighting threatened to demoralize the party's base and weaken its chances in November.

Mr. Dean's stern admonition to both candidates to stop the attacks on one another, telling their supporters to "keep their mouths shut," got lots of media attention. His plan to bring the nominating fight to an end, possibly before June, got little notice.

[dearolddad]

Dean makes the perfect poster boy for the Democrat party’s ability to run primaries/elections.

Screamer Dean could f*ck up a one car funeral.

[traintown57]

Not much of a solution considering politicians’ egos and the fact that almost nobody listens to Howard Dean anyway.
What I really don’t get is why they even have these Super-delegates. Does anybody know? Do the Republicans have them?

[iopscusa]

Hillary could still, conceivably, run again in 2012, what size pantsuit will she need?

[phoenix07]

And she will run - again, and again, and again, until they get themselves back into the Whitehouse. They wish to appoint themselves President for Life. All 3 of them.

[jackv]

Dick Morris was on last night saying the hag owes 18 million, and she can’t afford to stop the fund raising. She won’t drop out til obama agrees to buy out her debts.

[lonestar]

I think they came up with the superdelegates to be able to have the votes to get a better candidate than the voting public might choose. It was to prevent what happened in the 1968 Dem convention—but I don’t remember what that was...it was a big mess! I wasn’t there.