If Howard Dean does not get the DNC chair, what will you do?

[zulchzulu]

Poll question: If Howard Dean does not get the DNC chair, what will you do?

It looks like some people want Dean as DNC chair at all costs while others want him to focus on DFA exclusively. Others support someone else and yet others don't really think it makes that much of a difference. And others...

Poll result (50 votes)
Leave the Democratic party immediately	(4 votes, 8%)	Vote
Continue to work with the DFA	(12 votes, 24%)	Vote
Remind myself to buy some decent beer for this weekend	(6 votes, 12%)	Vote
Call Mom and ask her what she's doing these days	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
Move to Vermont and start a maple syrup religious cult	(3 votes, 6%)	Vote
Not really care one way or the other	(11 votes, 22%)	Vote
Break down in tears and go into a fetal position	(2 votes, 4%)	Vote
Some of the above	(2 votes, 4%)	Vote
Other	(10 votes, 20%)	Vote

[henslee]

1. Scream Yeaooooooooh!!!!!

[LSdemocrat]

2. I'd prefer Dean, but Rosenberg would be acceptable

Either one of those two would cause me to renew my yearly DNC contribution.

If Roemer gets the nod, the DNC won't get a dime from me.

Anyone else, I'd wait and see.

[IndianaGreen]

4. Rosenberg is a prowar neolib, Roemer is anti-choice

Both of them are losers!

[LSdemocrat]

7. I'm looking for someone who will change the way the party operates

Someone who will bring the party into the 21st century and give power back to the grassroots.

The main thing I don't want is someone who will continue the status quo.

Ideology is an important, but ultimately secondary concern, for me in determining who should be DNC chair.

[zulchzulu]

9. How is Rosenburg a "prowar neolib"?

Quotes? Sources?

[AntiCoup2K4]

18. There's another thread where the Wall Street Bush Worship Journal....

...compares him, favorably (in their eyes) to old Holy Joe-mentum himself.

[Osamasux]

8. Roemer looks more and more like a Republican every day.

[Cheswick2.0]

3. just what Kerry fans are doing since he lost the election

posting mean spirited threads about other democrats.

[Cha]

5. Amazing, isn't it?

When these are the real losers..

[zulchzulu]

6. Wow....check out the paradox...

Hey Ches,
The poll is not "mean-spirited". It has some serious choices (I voted to continue working for DFA) and a couple silly ones to see if people still have a sense of humor.

Yes, I'm a "Kerry fan". I'm also a "Dean fan" too. It is in fact a possible thing.

[JaneQPublic]

10. Other: Devote myself to the Dean 2008 Campaign!!! (nt)

[DemBones DemBones]

11. Other. . .

[msongs]

12. once a deaniac always a

dfa supporter...never give anything to the DNC they just waste it.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/howarddean2008.htm

[eg101]

13. who cares who gets the chair? They are all neoliberals

They all look pretty much the same to me. Maybe some small differences. Just disregard this nonsense....

Concentrate on communicating a liberal perspective of where the country should be in the future, with respect to economics, and an idea of what America is all about. A LEFTIST perspective. The GOP is on the right. If you believe in the GOP's ideas, you should be working for the GOP.

[mzmolly]

14. Work with DFA, just like Dean.

[KittyWampus]

15. Brush My Teeth And Go On With My Day

Is it really HELPFUL to have someone with a high profile as DNC Chair.

Actually, I personally think not.

[Hippo_Tron]

16. The Pary Chair RAISES MONEY

That's it, that's what he does, he goes around and shakes hands. Hell I wouldn't mind Terry McCauliffe again, he left the party with a surplus. I don't agree with him on a lot of issues but that doesn't matter, he's not running for public office. Everybody glorifies this position and blamed McCauliffe for the 2002 and 2004 losses. It's not his fault, ITS THE CANDIDATES' fault. It's Max Cleland's fault that he lost, it's Carahan's fault that she lost, it's Mondale's fault that he lost and to a lesser extent it's Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt's fault that they lost for not having a clear message, in particular one that is distinctly different from the Republican message. It's not the party chair's job to define the agenda. It's the party chair's job to promote the agenda as decided by the elected officials and to raise money to help that agenda.

That being said, Dean is a talented guy and has proven to be able to organize grassroots support that proved vital to the Kerry campaign, which is why I like him better than any of the others. But those who think that his becoming DNC chair is a way for him to further the agenda that he campaigned on in the democratic primary are sadly mistaken. As DNC chair he is required to promote the agenda that's decided by the elected leaders of the party.

[zulchzulu]

17. Bingo!

As Ed Rendell said...you raise money and travel a lot...and like you said, you don't get to make policy decisions...that's not your job.

[Guaranteed]

19. I'll just wait until Dean forms another party.

Then I'll support that party wholeheartedly until the Democrats get tired of the party being split, and have to implant another spine in order to run over Dean's party. Then I'll probably be a Democrat again.

Rinse, repeat.

[MrSlayer]

20. Other: Turn myself into a Lich.

If Howard Dean does not get the Chair I will use all my evil arcane power and commit ritual suicide to transform my soul into a demonic Lich.