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3/03/2003 06:22:00 AM | Anonymous Dean = Complete Zero Hi Tim. So Howard Dean is anti-war. Too bad he can't even articulate why before a partisan crowd of Vermont liberals at the Hopkins Center. If "We cant go to war unilaterally, and the American people know that" is the best he can do, he'll get knocked out real quick. As Nick just pointed out, there are very solid reasons to be anti-war, but Dean doesn't seem interested in pursuing them. This whole anti-war stance may in fact just be a gig to gain momentum with liberals so that he still has a chance in the primary 9 months after the war's over. Comparisons to Clinton and Carter are way misguided- Carter was plotting his presidential run very far in advance. On the eve of the 1974 elections, the Carter team called every losing Democratic candidate and offered them a chance to work for the Carter team in '76. Does Dean have a nationwide network? And Clinton may have been governor of Arkansas, but he's also the most charismatic Democrat we've had since Ted Kennedy killed that babysitter. Oh yeah, and I'm tired of hearing pundits say Kerry's 'waffling' on the Iraq issue. So he voted for it. It was gonna pass any way, and he's been in favor of removing Saddam since '98. He's against a unilateral war, and its leaders like him who are pushing Bush to find allies in a war that is going to happen any way, thus preserving at least a little bit of international integrity for the US. I personally think its clearly the time to remove Hussein and end this terrible regime, although its most unfortunate that it happens to be at a time when a President who ignores and breaks international treaties is in power cutting taxes steeply right before an expensive war and rebuilding project, flanked by a VP who will make sure to get rich off this somehow, and a State Department full of constitution-violating Reaganites. Still , at the end of the day there have been stranger bedfellows than Democrats and Republicans when the cause is right . Oh yeah, and Howard Dean, sucks when the minute you vacate your office it goes Republican. Whata legacy. perma link |
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