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Thursday, June 02, 2005

Dem Consultants can't shut up.

Axelrod and Bennett should be notified they are not helping. Shitting on the Dem's chairman for doing what's done to us daily and on the MainStreamMedia is plain wrong.

USATODAY.com - Dean: GOP has 'dark, difficult and dishonest' vision: "Dean's remark was the latest in a string of provocative comments that Democratic strategists say fire up activists but complicate the job of expanding the party. 'He's got a lot of pluses, and he fires off the occasional errant missile,' consultant David Axelrod said.

Axelrod and other Democrats counted Thursday's incident as a missile. 'That kind of language doesn't exactly improve our chances of making the case' to Republicans that they should vote Democratic, he said. Mike McCurry, a strategist for John Kerry's 2004 campaign and the Clinton White House, said Dean was making a point about 'the pressures on working people.' But he added, 'Class warfare usually doesn't get us very far.'

Matt Bennett, spokesman for the Democratic centrist group Third Way, called the comment 'a poor choice of words.' Still, he said, 'I can't think of a single instance in which an utterance by a party chair has really had a huge impact on an election.'"

Matt Bennett is a real doozy. If the Democratic Party Chairman utterances are not relevant then why is this guy is the spokesperson for a self-described Democratic splinter group? Is his relevance dependent on producing shitty commentary about the Democratic Party leadership for the Media?

Matt, respect authority. Dean's the boss, so act like he matters because he does. He was elected. You want to play in the Democratic sandbox then stop kissing DC ass and networking within the beltway to build your career and start paying attention to the Party grassroots.

David Axelrod:
I read this.
Your client, Fernando Ferrer, stumbled bif-time. Maybe your not to blame but of you say this, "I believe that, ironically, Mr. Ferrer stumbled on the truth but was too weak to exploit it, not quite bold enough to expand his constituency into the vast middle of the electorate who understand the systemic failure that led to Amadou Diallo’s death but also comprehend the huge difference between murder and tragic error."

Your assessment reeks of the Democratic Losership Council's advice to move Democrates to "the center" - abandon the Democratic core to appeal to "the middle". It cost Ferrer and your probably the guy to blame. He wasn't too weak to exploit the "truth" he was too weak when he hired you.
His aides were so confident of easy victory that they were already planning a national effort to raise funds and bring in volunteers from all over the country in a Democratic Party crusade to retake City Hall.

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