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Post Traumatic Dean Disorder
By Matt Margolis | February 20, 2004
“I have to vent … I think he’s nuts.”
These are the words of Gerald McEntee, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, about Howard Dean.
One of Howard Dean’s most powerful labor supporters, Gerald W. McEntee, said on Thursday that he had decided that Dr. Dean was “nuts” shortly before he withdrew his support for Dr. Dean’s candidacy and begged him to quit the race to avoid a humiliating defeat.
How sad. Dean could have saved himself from a lot more humiliation if he had listened to McEntee.
Mr. McEntee said he reached his assessment of Dr. Dean after watching what he described as a series of halting appearances in Iowa, leading up to his shouted concession speech. He said that he did not believe Dr. Dean, the former governor of Vermont, understood how substantial his decline was after that, and that he was stunned when Dr. Dean did not bow to pressure from labor unions to pull out earlier this month.
“I go to Burlington, and I meet with him,” Mr. McEntee said. “I’m telling you, I threw more ice water on his head in about 25 minutes than probably he has ever had. And I said: `Don’t do Wisconsin, O.K.? Don’t go in.’ I told him to get out. I said, `You can’t win.’ ”
“He said he’s still going into Wisconsin,” Mr. McEntee continued. “I said: `We’re not. We’re off the train. If you think I’m going to spend $1 million to get you another point after this election is over, you’re crazy.’”
In the typical whiney response from the Dean campaign, spokesman Jay Carson called McEntee’s candid remarks “attacks” that hurt the Democrat party’s chances of defeating Bush in November. “All Democrats have to be united to win this election,” Carson said. “This kind of personal attack is not going to help us beat George W. Bush.”
This coming from the campaign that was fueled entirely on attacking George W. Bush? Amazing, isn’t it?
In the end, McEntee is right. For one thing, it’s not personal, its business. Howard Dean, who said he brought new life to the Democrat party only succeeded in motivating a party that did not want him as their nominee for president. Does Carson really believe this is going to hurt the same party that rejected Dean?
When the Democrats lose in November, it’s not going to be because of so-called “personal attacks” on Howard Dean because he didn’t quit when he should have.
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Cross posted on Blogs For Bush
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