Ickes rumored for DNC head job

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usick064031921nov06,0,4547398.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines

WASHINGTON - Democratic Party insiders say Harold Ickes, a former Long Island lawyer with close ties to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, is being mentioned as a possible successor to the national party's outgoing chairman.

Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe is expected to step down when his term ends early next year, and jockeying for his position already is under way in the wake of Sen. John Kerry's presidential defeat. Ickes' name is one of several that has been making the rounds in party circles, say two senior Democratic sources.

Ickes, a longtime New York political operative, had a major but largely behind-the-scenes role in this year's election, heading up a multimillion-dollar pro-Kerry advertising effort. He is a former deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and was the chief political strategist in Hillary Clinton's successful Senate bid in 2000. Ickes could not be reached Friday for comment.

[redherring]

1. Uh no way, we want someone unbiased

This guy will probably support Hillary from the get-go--which will bite us in the ass in the end because she got no chance of winning.

[blm]

2. Hillary is NOT going to run for president. RW media keeps pushing that

meme so they can keep THEIR side together. Hillary knows what the internal polls show, she motivates the right more gainst her than the left for her.

[Pathwalker]

3. He was a thrill to watch during the impeachment hearings.

His every response to every question the republicans asked was dripping with contempt. He lectured them, he sneered, he told them that their questions were unworthy of answering, or respect.

Don't know anything else about him, but he was a real pitbull then.

[More Than A Feeling]

4. How do we make it clear that we want Howard Dean?

Or will it even matter? Will the Democratic Party select whomever despite what we say?

[Renew Deal]

5. He will try to push Hillary in '08.

Isn't there anyone else?

[KharmaTrain]

6. Re-Arranging The Deck Chairs

No discussion with the party base on this one? Someone who just had his ass kicked for a second time in a Senate race?

We have now gone from sublime to absurd.

[RafterMan]

7. How is this position chosen?

[demwing]

8. If Ickes is in

Then its clearly a push for Hillary in 2008