My other reaction to Joe Trippi's sacking- January 29, 2004 That last post was a bit too cold and calculated. Because you only saw phase two. I didn't have time to write about it till I finished work, and then I was over the emotional part. I cried when I heard the news. Still haven't figured out who it was for. Mostly Joe, I think. We had all come to love him, but I also knew he had stayed longer than he should have, helped bring the house down, figured he knew it and felt really bad for him. It didn't last long. Right now I'm pretty excited. I...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/28.html#a1078 Dean replaces Joe Trippi (his campaign manager)- January 29, 2004 This is several hours old now, but I could not break away from work. Howard Dean went back to Burlington today for a round of satellite interviews and a round of meetings to decide what to change. And decided to change the biggest thing he could change. He replaced Joe Trippi, the mastermind of his early strategy. He did the polite thing of asking Joe to stay on in another capacity, but of course Trippi bowed out gracefully. You can read Trippi's statement and Dean's statement on the Dean..http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/28.html#a1077 How Dean has to hone his message- January 28, 2004 The always-insightful Gail just posted a comment that goes to the heart of the problem with Dean's message--especially on the crucial electability question where he's failing. So I am reposting it here and on the Dean blog, hoping Joe Trippi and team will take notice: It feels like Dean is the only one in a good position to attack Bush on any number of issues - the tax cuts, or no child left behind, for example. Kerry voted for those things (didn't he). How can he possibly critize Bush...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/28.html#a1076 Gary Hart probably not running- January 28, 2004 Thank God. I'll explain that reaction in a sec. First the info from the Denver Post: WASHINGTON - Former Sen. Gary Hart likely won't run for the Senate this year, the Democratic Party's top Senate recruiter said Tuesday. "Gary Hart has made it clear he probably won't run," said Sen. Jon Corzine of New Jersey, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. . . . It would appear to narrow the field of Democrats seeking to oust incumbent Republican Ben Nighthorse Campbell to two...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/28.html#a1075 Format Changes -- Good or Bad- January 28, 2004 Or unnoticable I cleaned up the sidebars a bit, cleared out some old junk (sorry Wes Clark), and moved my blogroll and featured sites to the right side, so you can get to them more easily. Let me know if you like the change better or worse, or it's too trivial to notice. And while I'm at it, I'm open to suggestions for other changes. This change will also allow me to add more sites to my blogroll, so I'm soliciting nominations now. (And an offer to exchange links never hurts, folks.) And what...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/28.html#a1074 Comic relief: Republican Senators try to spin the Kay fiasco- January 28, 2004 Well, after all that New Hampshire heartbreak, it's nice to wake up to a reminder of what we're all fighting about and fighting for: David Kay is beginning his testimony to a Senate committee right now. That little Administration employee is going to blast a giant whole right through his boss' re-election prospects. (Not all by himself, but Iraq is going to bring this boy down, and Kay's humiliating resignation looks like the first big stone in the avalance.) Committee Chair and staunch...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/28.html#a1071 'Iraq didn't work for Dean'- January 28, 2004 The "Iraq didn't work for Dean" meme has been playing heavily in the media the past two weeks. It was the basis for his appeal, and yet voters shunned him on it, they say. Therefore, his constituency has deserted him. There are a few gaping problems with that logic: First, the Dean phenom never had much to do with Iraq. That was a part of the appeal for sure, but a small part. The media seized on that early, because that was the only explanation they could come up with--at least one they...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/28.html#a1069 David Brooks: 'Howard Dean is not going anywhere!'- January 28, 2004 Great commentary from David Brooks on Charlie Rose right now: He says there are millions of people who are hardcore for Howard Dean and will continue to support him in primary after primary. He also makes the obvious (to some!) point that Kerry is going to face a lot of harsh scrutiny. "We, in the media, have been obsessed by Howard Dean, rightly so, for several months in a row. And we've hit from every direction. And it has allowed John Kerry to become the front runner under the radar....http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/27.html#a1068 If the media had any sense . . .- January 28, 2004 They would spend the next week ridiculing that stunningly limp victory speech all week. But boredom doesn't sell, it just loses elections. And they're in the entertainment business, not the business of helping us pick a good president, or a tough challenger. At least they didn't stick us with Lieberman. He's giving a slightly more impassioned but exceptionally more unintentionally comical speech right now, claiming a virtual tie for third. Never mind that it's a distant third, or that he...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/27.html#a1067 Not giving up on Howard yet- January 28, 2004 Can Howard Dean survive Survive, definitely. Win, I'm not sure, truthfully. I sure hope so. He's got lots of money and lots of organization in all the contests next week, and Kerry and many of the others are just getting started. But . . . But this is a momentum game and Kerry has sure got it. Unfortunately, I've been watching CNN all night and they have been really timid about how they are going to spin this thing. Not sure what the other nets are saying. It's all up to them. We know they.http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/27.html#a1066 |