Which is why we're hearing the same old names coming to the front for leadership positions in congress on both sides of the aisle.
"We represent change, and to prove it, we're going to change our minds about change."
By the way, way back in the past, almost two years ago, I compared Howard Dean to Newt Gingrich:
The ascension of Howard Dean as DNC chair has the potential to reform and revitalize the left just as Newt Gingrich's Contract With America did for the right. (I can hear jaws from both sides of the ideological aisle ricocheting off of their keyboards right now as I compare The Scream © to St. Newt. It's kinda fun when I do that.)Just think back to 1992 when we really didn't know much about Newt, who he was, or what he was. He was the Minority Whip, and had a reputation as an extremist, a rabble rouser, and the kind of guy you use to rally your base, but hide in the closet when the campaign goes national so as not to scare off the swing voters.
Sound familiar?
And all this supposedly scary man did was to take core conservative values, frame them in a way that made them acceptible to those very same swing voters, and used those values to create a platform that in 1994 wrested control of the House of Representatives from the Democrats for the first time in 4 decades. He did this in a time when his party had suffered an embarrassing defeat in a presidential election and was fragmenting into a loose coalition of special interests.
Again, sound familiar?
And now the Dems have taken Congress. So obviously, it's time to fire Dean.
Posted by Rich at November 16, 2006 1:09 AM | TrackBack