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Howard Dean: Republicans "doing everything they can to make sure Congress goes Democratic in 2014"
Video: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45755883/ns/msnbc-the_last_word/vp/51755387#51755387
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(O'Donnell) howard dean, there you have a republican ad, attacking the president. apparently a co production of the republican party and abc news.
(Dean) you know, it's very interesting. these guys are probably around 23% in the polls. i am shocked that the vaunted republican party message machine is as incompetent as this. if you're 23% of the polls, you do not get advanced by running negative ads about someone else. basic politics. all they're doing is driving their own negatives down, no credibility. clobbered in the last election. i think they're doing everything they can to make sure congress goes democratic in 2014. it's great.
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(Dean) my problem, i'm very direct about what i feel. i'm likely to call the guy an ignore aimous which is true, but presidential candidates should want say that. but that's true. that's one of the reasons people don't respect the press very much. it's such an inside the beltway game. it really is true. i think you put your finger on it. they care more about their little two seconds in the national television, and so they ask these silly questions. and then, of course, if -- you know, if you ask a question as a reporter and the republicans use it in their ad, you probably haven't acquitted yourself very well.
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(Dean) well, mccain has been able to stand up for what he believes. i may not agree but you've got to give him credit for standing up what he thinks is right. which a lot of people on both parties, but particularly in the republican party, didn't do. this is a bankrupt strategy, lawrence. they're using the same playbook they used last time and they got clobbereded. that is, let's not give the president any victories. the problem is -- i don't understand how they can misread this so badly. they got absolutely clobber in the election when the biggest vote against them and right back to the same old strategy. this doesn't help people like cantor trying to rebrand the republican party. makes them look like the same old horrible gas bags they were in the first two years.
(O'Donnell) but a lot of them, anyway, now do seem to be trying to find a way to get there on immigration. and get to a bill-signing with the president.
(Dean) i'm skeptical. look at all of the back wash they're getting from the tea party and the crack pots on the talk radio and all that stuff. i don't know that this is going to pass. i think those -- those four republicans in the gang of eight could get run over. look at rubio tap-dancing his way out of what he said. i mean, i -- i think this party really is in a civil war. the leadership doesn't know how to manage it. and the people who are on the right who are being left out of the winning combination that is trying to be built are basically willing to take down the party with them. and they may succeed.
(O'Donnell) howard dean, there you have a republican ad, attacking the president. apparently a co production of the republican party and abc news.
(Dean) you know, it's very interesting. these guys are probably around 23% in the polls. i am shocked that the vaunted republican party message machine is as incompetent as this. if you're 23% of the polls, you do not get advanced by running negative ads about someone else. basic politics. all they're doing is driving their own negatives down, no credibility. clobbered in the last election. i think they're doing everything they can to make sure congress goes democratic in 2014. it's great.
<...>
(Dean) my problem, i'm very direct about what i feel. i'm likely to call the guy an ignore aimous which is true, but presidential candidates should want say that. but that's true. that's one of the reasons people don't respect the press very much. it's such an inside the beltway game. it really is true. i think you put your finger on it. they care more about their little two seconds in the national television, and so they ask these silly questions. and then, of course, if -- you know, if you ask a question as a reporter and the republicans use it in their ad, you probably haven't acquitted yourself very well.
<...>
(Dean) well, mccain has been able to stand up for what he believes. i may not agree but you've got to give him credit for standing up what he thinks is right. which a lot of people on both parties, but particularly in the republican party, didn't do. this is a bankrupt strategy, lawrence. they're using the same playbook they used last time and they got clobbereded. that is, let's not give the president any victories. the problem is -- i don't understand how they can misread this so badly. they got absolutely clobber in the election when the biggest vote against them and right back to the same old strategy. this doesn't help people like cantor trying to rebrand the republican party. makes them look like the same old horrible gas bags they were in the first two years.
(O'Donnell) but a lot of them, anyway, now do seem to be trying to find a way to get there on immigration. and get to a bill-signing with the president.
(Dean) i'm skeptical. look at all of the back wash they're getting from the tea party and the crack pots on the talk radio and all that stuff. i don't know that this is going to pass. i think those -- those four republicans in the gang of eight could get run over. look at rubio tap-dancing his way out of what he said. i mean, i -- i think this party really is in a civil war. the leadership doesn't know how to manage it. and the people who are on the right who are being left out of the winning combination that is trying to be built are basically willing to take down the party with them. and they may succeed.
He said Republicans got "clobbered" with the biggest vote against them since LBJ.
Congressional GOP beginning to notice their own incompetence
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022787597
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