BY MAGGIE HABERMAN
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU
HOWARD DEAN, The favorite to be the next head of the Democratic National Committee, made his case in midtown yesterday, promising to make his party operate more like the GOP - at least when it comes to elections.
"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, but I admire their discipline and their organization," the failed presidential hopeful told the crowd at the Roosevelt Hotel, where he and six other candidates spoke at the final DNC forum before the Feb. 12 vote for chairman.
Italics mine. This reminds me of one bloggers comment:
Jane's Law: The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.
I REALLY want the Democrats to be a viable and winning (at least some of the time) party. If the Democrats completely abandon the center, the Republicans will likely do the same (public choice theory says this shouldn't be so, but the Republicans have a pretty good instinct for self-destruction themselves). Rhetoric like this from Dean (who appears to be the front runner for the DNC chair) does not encourage.
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU
HOWARD DEAN, The favorite to be the next head of the Democratic National Committee, made his case in midtown yesterday, promising to make his party operate more like the GOP - at least when it comes to elections.
"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, but I admire their discipline and their organization," the failed presidential hopeful told the crowd at the Roosevelt Hotel, where he and six other candidates spoke at the final DNC forum before the Feb. 12 vote for chairman.
Italics mine. This reminds me of one bloggers comment:
Jane's Law: The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.
I REALLY want the Democrats to be a viable and winning (at least some of the time) party. If the Democrats completely abandon the center, the Republicans will likely do the same (public choice theory says this shouldn't be so, but the Republicans have a pretty good instinct for self-destruction themselves). Rhetoric like this from Dean (who appears to be the front runner for the DNC chair) does not encourage.
roflmao!