Just think of how much worse tonight would have been if

[MannyGoldstein]

Howard Dean had been running the DNC. We might have won many more races, but there'd doubtless have been partisanship, competent campaigning, and unhelpful vocalizations played over and over by the news media.

Ewww.

I believe we all owe a debt of gratitude to one Debbie Wasserman Schultz (and her photogenic doggies) for keeping this from being a bad night. This campaign season was clean, fair, and I dare say it's begun to move the domestic animal Overton Window from cats back to dogs.

Huzzah!

Regards,

Third-Way Manny

[YarnAddict]

1. Um,

sarcasm?

[Art_from_Ark]

27. When he signs his posts "Third Way Manny",

that means he is being sarcastic.

[still_one]

2. It could have been worse.

[Brigid]

5. Unfortunately, we always keep saying that.

[cstanleytech]

34. Mm its true enough, Palin could be president for example. nt

[Half-Century Man]

22. Wait

It will be.

[Peregrine Took]

3. I think those unpleasant vocalizations were the worst! The country just couldn't bear them!

We are much better off with Deb & Co as she doesn't even yodel!

[LittleBlue]

4. Yeah who wants that icky partisanship?

Not me. I hated when my parents fought. Fighting is uncomfortable. I'd rather compromise. Thank goodness Howard Dean is gone

[mazzarro]

6. What??????????? - n/t

[boguspotus]

7. Go to hell Manny - you basitd!

: )

[NEOBuckeye]

8. When Dean ran the DNC, we had the beginnings of a re-emerging Democratic Party here in Ohio

Dean planted seeds with his 50-state strategy that grew and allowed us to take back control of the state in 2006. Tonight what those seeds grew lies shambles in the shadow of a smug Republican governor and party who should have never been in the first place back in 2010.

I've got no use for Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She's done zero for us here.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

9. What did Howard ever do for us except to have a cogent stategy?

We needed more than that with the power of positive thinking brought to us by CEOs and investment bankers of the thrid way... :eye:

Have you ever notice that the third way logo is a compass pointing north, but a compass only has two points and not three? Even their logo is misleading.

[maced666]

10. Keeping from being a bad night?

Bad has happened.

[Phlem]

11. Amen Manny.

Huzzah!

[brooklynite]

12. Frankly, I find this mantra tiring...

...tell us EXACTLY how the "50 State Strategy" was eliminated. By the fact the Dean stopped serving as Chair? Do you know for a fact that his State Party development policies were changed or eliminated? Or was Dean the ONLY Democrat clever enough to pull such a strategy off?

[MannyGoldstein]

15. "stopped serving as chair."

LOL

Can you think of any phrases that might be a tad more descriptive?

[pkdu]

23. This thread only allows posts that tosses Manny salad..please refrain from non-Salad-tossing posts.

[MannyGoldstein]

26. Remember when Louis XVI stopped serving as the King of France? nt

[pkdu]

29. Didnt post to you...but since you asked..

yeah...you and i were both there right?

[Zorra]

36. Dean's brutal removal from his position was a bit less messy.

Howard only got the axe, Louis got the guillotine.

[Duppers]

13. On your game, per usual, Manny.

I miss Dr. Dean like hell, just was saying so to the mister coming out of the voting booth today.


Debbie Wasserman Schultz's leadership did go to the dogs (poor dogs, they don't deserve it).

[Peregrine Took]

14. Too many untested rookie candidates. n/t

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. superb.

[grahamhgreen]

17. Yeeeeeehaaaaaaawwwwww!

[shenmue]

18. The hell?

[whereisjustice]

19. Her dog had enough, just filed for status as political refugee. eom

[zeemike]

20. Well what ever happened tonight if fit the narrative of the media.

Obama is unpopular, watch out dems...

Was there ever any doubt that it would?

Sometimes I think it is all a scripted drama they make up to keep us dazed and confused....a daily soap opera...As The Political World Turns.

But the story will continue...for the next two years the drama will be told again, and we will have to cough up some money to keep the bad guys at bay.

[Half-Century Man]

24. The narrative was allowed to exist.

It should have been crushed as bullshit by every candidate.


We Refused To Run United.
Stand together or fall separately.
That was the moral of one of Aesop's fables.
It is one of the foundations of western civilization.

There was a concerned effort to be stupid, we worked hard for the debacle.

[bearssoapbox]

21. It's just a flesh wound.

Not sure why I thought of this but

HEY...

IT'S MONTY PYTHON!

So it can't be all bad.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. Howard Fineman was in complete agreement with Tweety tonight...

"Democrats have to reinvent themselves. The Obama Era is OVER."

[davidpdx]

28. Manny I rarely agree with you

but this is the second time in a few weeks that I have. We got fucked tonight. The Senate, fucked. The House, Fucked, The Govenor's races, fucked!

But you know what, here is what will be convenient, now The Hillarites can push the "only Hillary can save us" mantra. Yes, it's coming to a meme near you very soon. Look for the pompoms to go out in the next few days because the stage is set.

[MannyGoldstein]

30. Welcome to the Dark Side

Hillary will not fare well.

[davidpdx]

31. You know Manny I think I am going to join you

We don't agree on everything, but I'm starting to feel more cynical.

Where do I sign up? BTW I also would support Warren if she runs.

[MannyGoldstein]

33. I'll send over some minions

They'll bring Doritos and a contract, it'll be cool.

[zentrum]

35. Suppressing Dean is pretty

...sinister, isn't it? It can only be because he was effective.

He helped connect, validate, empower and grow the Base. And Dem leaders don't like or want to be accountable to that constituency. Their constituency, once in power, and since the DLC strategy was brought in by the Clintonistas, is to align with their big donors, and turn towards Wall Street. Period.

Dean's banishment was our own.

[malaise]

32. To be kind

She's an absolute waste of time

[Odin2005]

37. Dammit, you had me for a while, there!