tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36820982.post8255965908495136697..comments2006-11-13T12:29:01.675-06:00Comments on One Country Voice: The NEW BREED of Democrat - Part TwoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36820982.post-29700710033413062892006-11-13T09:48:00.000-06:002006-11-13T09:48:00.000-06:00Anonymous,
Thank you for your response. Everyone ...Anonymous,<br /><br />Thank you for your response. Everyone should be concerned about this "new breed" (FLLD) that is attempting to take over our country! Even though Dean is the "head" of the Democratic Party, it is clear he does not respect the Democratic values and his "groups" attempts to take over the party, both nationally and locally are very obvious and even at times boldly stated.<br /><br />It would appear to me that the Democratic Party might need to "buck" the "system" and take their party back least it fall to the demons. <br /><br />I appreciate the article on the "The Inside Agitator" and will be doing another article on this and will put a link to that article on my post.The Juicy Drinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14747886131560932303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36820982.post-52185521845835683952006-11-13T08:08:00.000-06:002006-11-13T08:08:00.000-06:00xwbThis Blue Dog Democrat is very concerned about ...xwbThis Blue Dog Democrat is very concerned about the New Breed of Democrat. Matt Bai, wrote “The Inside Agitator” article in the New York Times Magazine. A picture of Howard Dean appears on the cover with the question below “It’s His Party?” and Howard Dean and the Creative Destruction of the Democratic Establishment underneath.<br /><br />An excerpt from the article “ …Dean has become a folk hero for marginalized liberals. How this happened has been largely misunderstood. Dean has been credited with inciting an Internet driven rebellion against his own party, but, in fact, he was more the accidental vehicle of a movement that was already emerging. The rise of Moveon.org, blogs and “meet-ups” was powered to some extent by the young, tech-savvy activists on both coasts who were so closely associated in the public mind with Dean’s campaign. But the fast growing Internet community was also a phenomenon of liberal enclaves in more conservative states, where disenchanted Democrats, mostly baby boomers, had long felt outnumbered and abandoned….What the Web did was to connect disparate groups of Democratic voters who didn’t live in targeted states and who had watched helplessly as Republicans overran their communities. <br /><br /> More excerpts: <br /> “It seems increasingly obvious that Dean is pursuing his own agenda for the party…and agenda that picks up, in many ways, where his renegade presidential campaign left off.”<br /><br /> “It didn’t take long, after the election, for a new band of Democratic outsiders to begin asserting themselves on the local level. <br /> <br /> “Meanwhile, the bloggers who supported Dean were taking up the same cause, inciting sporadic local rebellions….Bower’s call for individual activists to overwhelm and rebuild their local parties became a rallying point for the emerging Netrrots party-reform movement.”<br /><br /> “The question for Dean was how to harness and aggregate this state-by-state uprising…..he formed a political action committee called Democracy for America, whose mission was to raise money for “progressive candidates seeking local offices from mayoral and Congressional seats down to the local water board.” <br /><br />Jim Dean, Howard Dean’s younger brother, a one time salesman, has taken over the PAC. Jim Dean recruited for insurgent candidates like Paul Hackett and Ned Lamont. <br /><br /> “While campaign laws prohibited the Dean brothers from coordinating their activities, Washington Democrats assumed that Jim Dean’s job was to carry out the chairman’s subversive wishes.” <br /><br /> “Fairly or not, Dean has come to embody a species of Democrat that a lot of Americans of both parties find off-putting: the 60’s liberal, reborn with a laptop and a Prius”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36820982.post-20813753343127708002006-11-12T10:28:00.000-06:002006-11-12T10:28:00.000-06:00well saidwell saidSusan Ducloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01876090195787415266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36820982.post-58554027374765535722006-11-12T04:59:00.000-06:002006-11-12T04:59:00.000-06:00Thank you for providing an excellent overview of t...Thank you for providing an excellent overview of the FLLD’s. Since I see that we are both continuing to write about the attempted takeover of the Democratic party by these extreme leftist radicals, and I’m going to link back to your fine article in <a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/"><br />Faultline USA</a><br /><br />I’m glad that you mentioned the typical tactics commonly used by the so-called “Active Democrats”. I can tell you that your description is exactly what many others have experienced on local political forums. I am disheartened because most Democrats are fine patriotic Americans with centrist values. We will all lose greatly if the Democratic Party falls to these terrorist coddling leftists!!!Faultline USAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.com