Dean for DNC Chairman

[cal04]

(people might not agree with him about Kerry but, I think the DNC chairman would be a great job for Dean)

With Bush's horrible record and our energized electorate, we should be celebrating a smashing victory today. Instead, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and company are laughing at us and picking Supreme Court nominees. There are several people who deserve blame for this squandered opportunity.

Sen. John Kerry tried to straddle and finesse too many important issues, and inexplicably halted his campaign for critical weeks during the summer. His choices and tactics failed to deliver. He rolled over to right wing crimes and dirty tricks. He betrayed the voters in Ohio and elsewhere without a fight. In the end, Kerry was an unworthy choice, as I'd feared from the first.

We cannot do anything about that now. We can and must move strongly forward. During the darkest hour, when Democrats lost their nerve and lost their voice, one man broke through the Bush Amen Corner that dominated the media and the listless impotence in the Democratic Party. One man took brave and honest stands, spoke the truth.

Howard Dean, reminded Democrats how to fight for what they believe. He rejected the anti-American attacks on liberty which equated free speech with treason. He connected with Americans and slashed through right wing double-talk. He showed that the emperor had no clothes, just a sack of hate and lies.





article/last paragraph
http://www.mikehersh.com/

[Hobarticus]

1. Hear, hear! The Dems really do owe a lot to Dean!

He's the leadership we need.

[mitchtv]

2. let me repeat that " Dean for DNC Chair"

we owe it to ourselves.

[codegreen]

3. Dean saw, aknowledged, and acted on the threat of BBV before the election

which is exactly when the entire party should have been simply stating in unison, "We will not honor the 'results' of any unaccountable, paperless, corrupt voting system". it may have been the only course of action that would have forced BBV to be abandoned, and perhaps today would be different.

i cannot think of a single way in which Dean as DNC Chair would be bad.
we need him there, we need him terribly.

if he wants to run again, he could step down in 2006 after our hopefully successful retaking of the House and Senate.

Dean for DNC Chair.

[BJ]

4. Dr. Dean and Joe Trippi!

Terry Macauliffe's an o.k. guy and has done much for the party. And consideration must be due for almost bringing this presidential campaign to an almost a successful conclusion.

Almost isn't good enough. Macauliffe's too tied to the centerist DNC wing of the party.

It's time for new blood and a new direction and Howard Dean and Joe Trippi showed the way during the primary season and kept the fires stoked during the presidential campaign.

It's time the Doctor was in the house!

[madinmaryland]

5. I agree!

Dr. Dean has done the most over the last four years to energize the Democratic Party!

:thumbsup:

[cal04]

6. Any suggestions? Do we start a pettition or just write to them

from the last paragraph of mike hersh.
Call and write the DNC to demand they choose Howard Dean as Chairman.

[codegreen]

8. Democracy for America: 802.651.3200. leave a message asking Dean to do it!

[cal04]

11. Thanks. Will do

:)

[asjr]

7. Dean was my first choice--from the beginning. But when

Kerry became the nominee I backed him. I wish someone could delve into the BBV problem and show the world the election was stolen again. Democrats must stop being polite when it comes to a presidential election. I wish Democrats had protested the election. In my opinion the exit polls were correct. The votes were not. We do not need a theif for a president.

[democraticrevolution]

9. You are so right!

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/deanfordnc

Click on the link above to view the petition then sign it if you wish.



Howard Dean for Chairman of the Democratic National Committee


By Jason Gooljar




It was a solemn day the crowd gathered around the stage where the candidate was to give his concession. Smiles were on the faces of some, while tears fell from the cheeks of others. Rhythmic applause could be heard erupting from the people all in unison. No, this was not the election night of November 2nd , 2004. This was Howard Dean back in the winter about to end his primary bid. For some this moment can now be looked back on as the day we really lost the presidency to our own party.


It has been said "When you trade your values for the hope of winning, you end up losing and having no values -- so you keep losing." The truth has never been more clear than it is now. We must strengthen the newly found spinal transplant of the Democratic Party. We must now take a stand with our democratic values in tow. First, I'll tell you what we should not stand for anymore. We can no longer be a party who has to move to the center. The right has never had to do it and neither should we. We can no longer be a party who is beholden to special interests. No more of the big money donors, there is a better way. Raise the money from the grassroots.


We need real campaign finance reform. We need to be the party of inclusion and the party of the poor and the middle class. We need to go to middle America and talk to them about what we stand for. We need to show them that we truly have their interests at heart. We need to go to the evangelical Christians and have a real discussion about America. We need to have a real discussion of religion in America. We need to re frame the debate from our perspective and not reinforce the conservative frames already in place.


When Goldwater lost, his backers did not give up. Goldwater actually lost badly. We have not been greatly defeated like they were. It took them forty years to build the machine they have in place now. We let them do it while we snickered at them and laughed at them for being extremists who would never hold power. They continued to work and they continued to organize. They started winning locally at the state level throughout the middle states and then they went national. They threw the moderate republicans out in favor of the new conservatives. There is much to learn from our opponents indeed.


As we rebuild our party we must keep some things in mind. The neo conservatives do not have absolute power. There were millions of Americans who voted against this President. We still have the power, you still have the power. We as the progressive movement can no longer be afraid of losing. In order to win you must loose. As long as you keep your values when you loose you can continue to fight on. If you give them up you have nothing. Either we as the democratic party stand for something or we stand for nothing at all. After all why vote for a right wing lite party when you can vote for the real thing as middle America did.


Terry McAuliffe's strategy had major flaws in my opinion. The tactic of a shorter primary in my opinion was not a good idea. We could have used the time to truly prepare our national agenda. We could have used that time to allow our democratic ideals to take forefront in the media. Chairman Mcauliffe is an incredible fund raiser this has been said but he lacks the vision to take this party in the direction it has to go. It has also been said that his agenda did not truly involve the south.


With all of this being said I'm asking the people who voted against this President to ask the DNC to elect former Governor Howard Dean as the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Howard Dean has a clear vision of where this party needs to be headed. We need his guidance to achieve our goals as a progressive movement. If we loose in the interim if we stay together as a movement we can shoulder the losses and eventually trumpet the wins. I'm asking for the people to write letters to the media and call elected officials in the democratic party to push for election of Howard Dean as the new chairman of the DNC.







Jason Gooljar <[e-mail]>

[cal04]

10. Thank You. I will post this

where I can.

[codegreen]

12. egads i'm sorry, but i can't figure out how to sign it...

[cal04]

13. code, I had to switch to explorer

my opera didn't show the right side where the sig and comment goes

[codegreen]

14. damn

i guess that site's just not very compatable...

[RadioLeft]

15. DeanForDNC.us - Let's make Howard Dean DNC Chairman

My apologies for posting this a second time. I have now made a donation and can use the search feature. But, when I originally posted this, I didn't know this topic was here.

How about signing the petition at:

DeanForDNC.us

Here's the sad part about this: We ran a petition after Jerry Falwell said "911 is God's doing because we are evil" demanding that Bush condemn Falwell's remarks. We had 30,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. But, at this moment we're at 500 votes after four days. We believe it will take at least 100,000 signatures to get barely noticed.

Is working to get Dean elected DNC chairman a misguided effort? Just curious since this seems far more important than condemning Jerry Falwell.

[imenja]

16. Donna Brazile

I like Dean a lot, but I think Donna Brazile would be a better head of the DNC. She's knows more about strategy and get out the vote efforts.

[mandyky]

17. While Dean would be good for the party

at the DNC, I want him to run again in 2008, so I am torn about this..

[RadioLeft]

18. Dean & presidency

Please consider signing the petition at DeanForDNC.us

We need Dean now to keep the new grassroots voters in the Democratic Party. If we pick a DLC or conservative Democrat to be the head of the DNC:

1. Dean won't get the nomination in 2008

2. Whoever gets the Democratic nomination will lose if we continue to be Republican-lite.

3. It's even worse when we have someone like John Kerry with solid liberal / progressive values who pretends to be Republican lite.

So, we need Dean as DNC Chairman because if we don't reform the party NOW, we won't win any national elections any time soon.

[mandyky]

19. I am a Dean Democrat

but really could care less about the Party itself. Personally, I'd laugh like hell if the grassroots left the party and formed a third party (we're all too liberal, anyways). The Dems have treated Howard Dean like shit, but he still could get the nomination no matter who heads the party.

I'll leave it up to Dean to do what he feels right for himself and the party.