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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoward Dean: Romney "will be forced to serve as an autopen" for RW policies.
How The Right Robbed Romney Of His Running Room
Brian Beutler
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The (Democratic) presidential nominee has an enormous amount of sway over the platform, says Howard Dean, who was DNC chairman at the time. There is some push and pull, but the nominee gets his way most of the time.
In an interview, Dean acknowledged that there are some issues, such as womens choice, that no Democratic candidate could feasibly support or append to the party platform.
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Dean says he believes Romney will be forced to serve as an autopen for the types of policies congressional Republicans pushed hard in 2011 and 2012. And he attributes the differences in the ways the parties operate to demographics.
(I)n some ways were a more democratic party, he said. We tend to be much more tolerant of differences between people. Theyre more like if youre not with me youre the enemy. (In the Democratic party) theres a lot of give and take, push and pull. We work things out, even if it gets a little messy sometimes. The Republican partys much more monolithic: mostly white, mostly Christian, mostly old.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/mitt-romney-paul-ryan-budget-conservatives-vice-president-health-care.php
Brian Beutler
<...>
The (Democratic) presidential nominee has an enormous amount of sway over the platform, says Howard Dean, who was DNC chairman at the time. There is some push and pull, but the nominee gets his way most of the time.
In an interview, Dean acknowledged that there are some issues, such as womens choice, that no Democratic candidate could feasibly support or append to the party platform.
<...>
Dean says he believes Romney will be forced to serve as an autopen for the types of policies congressional Republicans pushed hard in 2011 and 2012. And he attributes the differences in the ways the parties operate to demographics.
(I)n some ways were a more democratic party, he said. We tend to be much more tolerant of differences between people. Theyre more like if youre not with me youre the enemy. (In the Democratic party) theres a lot of give and take, push and pull. We work things out, even if it gets a little messy sometimes. The Republican partys much more monolithic: mostly white, mostly Christian, mostly old.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/mitt-romney-paul-ryan-budget-conservatives-vice-president-health-care.php
Redstate's Erick Erickson issues warning to Romney
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021114221
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Howard Dean: Romney "will be forced to serve as an autopen" for RW policies. (Original Post)
ProSense
Aug 2012
OP
Norquist sez all their candidate needs is "working digits" to sign what THEY send...
progressivebydesign
Aug 2012
#3
And he'll go along with it because everything they want benefits the rich.
Lone_Star_Dem
Aug 2012
#4
ProSense
(116,464 posts)1. Kick! n/t
ProSense
(116,464 posts)2. Another. n/t
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)3. Norquist sez all their candidate needs is "working digits" to sign what THEY send...
That is beyond frightening. Grover Norquist and the ignorant, corrupt, and greedy, teabaggers like Ryan?
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)4. And he'll go along with it because everything they want benefits the rich.
And what happens to the working class, the poor and the elderly matters not to him.