Why isn't anyone considering Max Cleland for head of the DNC?

[Cyrano]

http://www.mydd.com

This morning's post on mydd lists a bunch of dems who are going to turn up in Orlando next Saturday trying to get the job of heading up the Democratic National Committee.

Why Max Cleland isn't being considered is beyond me. Maybe he doesn't want the job, but let's draft him. This ex-Georgia senator who lost the senate election in 2002, most probably, due to a program hidden in the touch screen machines titled "Rob Georgia," (see Randi Rhodes website, therandirhodesshow.com for details) is the best possible chairman we could ask for.

Even though I'm all for Howard Dean, I believe the Republican noise machine would turn him into a villain within a week. Max Cleland on the other hand is hard to demonize. When Ann Coulter calls this Vietnam, triple amputee, a bungler who caused his own injuries, you just know we have a winner. This man gave more of himself to his country than any hypocrite Rethug in the administration, or congress.

Who better to represent the Dems than one of the vets the thugs claim to revere?

[WI_DEM]

1. it could be he hasn't expressed any interest in it

not that I think he would be a bad choice.

[davidinalameda]

2. possibly too close to Kerry?

maybe the DNC doesn't want someone as head who was so close to Kerry

[MrUnderhill]

3. He's not patriotic enough...

..or so I've heard.

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[JI7]

4. he probably doesn't want it

if he did i assume he would be contacting people in the party trying to get support.

[Cuban_Liberal]

5. I oppose 'token' appointments.

Cleland has no more qualifications to be DNC chairman than do several people, and it's insulting to him and to all differently-enabled people to 'use' his disability as some sort of 'selling point'.

:wtf: