The 'Bizarre Rant' That Destroyed Howard Dean

NewsMax ^ | 1/21/04 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Howard Dean's "bizarre rant" after his defeat in Iowa is looking like the fatal blow to his campaign, according the New York Post and others.

"I used to be on the Dean bandwagon, but now I feel as if he's imploding," said medical student Eliza Shulman.

"I was really scared when I saw him on TV. I can't believe I used to be for that guy. It's embarrassing."

The Post quoted "stunned" strategists for Democrat rivals, including this one: "I don't know how he'll ever be able to convince voters that he has the gravitas, temperament and judgment to be president."

The two-day-old outburst continues to be the talk of the nation. Jay Leno last night had his audience roaring with jabs at the former front-runner: "Did you see that speech Howard Dean gave last night? I heard that the cows in Iowa are now afraid of getting mad Dean disease."

On "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart showed comical footage of a previous rant in which Dean practically choked on his own hatred as he vowed to send President Bush "back to Crawford, Texas." Stewart likened him to Gollum, the split-personality creature from "Lord of the Rings," and showed a graphic with Dean's face superimposed on Gollum's body.

Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway told the Post, "This was the latest episode in the new reality show: 'Howard Dean's Freak Show.'

"He comes across either as a child who's throwing a temper tantrum and taking his ball and going home from the sandbox, or a grown man whose temper is really disturbing."

[JudgemAll]

"I was really scared when I saw him on TV. I can't believe I used to be for that guy. It's embarrassing."

Like the others are any better, including CLinton.... sheesh. Wake the f up!

[GeorgiaDawg]

Does anyone have a link to the audio for Dean's post-Iowa meltdown or the "Crawford Texas" one from the Daily Show?

[GoShow]

Dean's Black-Sheep meltdown was great comedy!

I thought he was trying to inject some Chris Farley
Humor into his speech.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Oh, Geez it was just a pep rally! He laughed afterward. Bush hate speech's is one thing but please, this was nothing. The Dems should elect him, he obviously thinks more like the typical Democrat.

He can't win the election though, hee hee hee.

[Lance Romance]

The media loved Dean for months because he was always good for an Anti-Bush sound byte. But when he started to threaten the Clinton machine, Hillary gave the order to start tearing him down.

Next up, Kerry and Edwards.

[Luis Gonzalez]

[cartoonistx]

[bvw]

Dean can survive this. He doesn't have to do much to turn it completely around. Too much pileing-on, it is drawing sympathy.

And now, since he's not considered the focus of Dem primaries -- the other Dems will be eating each other up. Vanity chews up many a strong man. Clark's after Kerry already. Will hobble them both.

I don't think people *like* Edwards, either.

[Lazamataz]

I think it was just as insanely bizarro when Dean sang the SSBanner on Tuesday. That was just so incredibly out of place! I was looking for the men in white coats to come after him with a net.

I understand he got the words wrong, too:

The Tar Baby Scammer
By
Howard Dean

Okay can of peas,
By blue prawns burly fright,
What so loudly we scaled
At her thigh-heights last creaming.

Who's broad thighs and tight bra,
Thrown off with all might,
O'er the rampant Sasquatch,
Were so happily screaming.

And the sockets dead stare,
The Toms cursing right there,
Glazed poof on the right,
That the fag did not care.


O Say does that Tar-Baby scammer yet crave,
O'er the gland of us three,
And the home of depraved.

[Dallas59]

Strike one....

[Benrand]

On the way to the gym befor ethe YEARGH, there was a dean t shirt in a trendy hippie boot store...the day after on my way to the gym, I noticed the t shirt disappeared.

[AB AB AB]

To clarify, something like this:

Dean: "You know something? Not only are we going to New Hampshire,"

Bush: "our partners in Britain,"

Dean: "South Carolina,"

Bush: "Australia,"

Dean: "Oklahoma"

Bush: "Japan,"

Dean: "and Arizona"

Bush: "South Korea,"

Dean: "and North Dakota"

Bush: "the Philippines,"

Dean: "and New Mexico"

Bush: "Thailand,"

Dean: "We're going to California"

Bush: "Italy,"

Dean: "and Texas"

Bush: "Spain,"

Dean: "and New York,"

Bush: "Poland, Denmark,"

Dean: "and we're going to South Dakota"

Bush: "Hungary, Bulgaria,"

Dean: "and Oregon"

Bush: "Ukraine,"

Dean: "and Washington"

Bush: "Romania,"

Dean: "and Michigan."

Bush: "the Netherlands (applause begins)"

Dean: "And then we're going to Washington, D.C."

Bush: "Norway, El Salvador,"

Dean: "to take back the White House."

Bush: "and the 17 other countries that have committed troops to Iraq."

Dean: "Yaaaaaaaaaah!"

Bush: "May God continue to bless America. (Applause.)"

[Lazamataz]

[Roughneck]

Who were those people, and what will they do now that they've discovered "their man" is a whackjob?


Do you really think that "those people" have enough sense to discover this? They are whackjobs themselves IMO.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

[job]

you sentence structure impossible makes understand saying

[Petronski]

... At her thigh-heights last creaming. ...

Paging Dr. Freud. LOL

[Poohbah]

Caption for your picture: "PULL MY FINGER, S**THEAD!"

[r9etb]

Do you really think that "those people" have enough sense to discover this? They are whackjobs themselves IMO.

What I think they are is a bunch of young, naive, emotion-driven leftish tech types who thought this sort of organization could put into practice their naive and ill-thought-out ideals. (A similar naive idealism explains why those who embrace libertarianism tend to be tech types.)

The question is: will they simply drop out of politics after their first foray into real campaigns, or will they take their loss to heart and either a) grow up, or b) go even wackier left?

I'm thinking that most of them drop out in disgust. Some few will grow up, and there will be a hard core of activists who will head left.

[RightField]

#55
What an odd place to wear the face of his watch.