Howard Dean’s Ascension
Feb 27th, 2005 by cadmus
Somehow, at the end of the day, Dean managed to triumph over his rivals after all. Lashing out at Washington Democrats as timid and feckless during the primaries, he vowed to ”take back our party,” and he did exactly that. The party’s Congressional leaders could talk all they wanted about how Dean would be a mere functionary — ”I think Dean knows his job is not to set the message,” Harry Reid lectured — but, like Kerry’s welcoming e-mail message, such statements had the ring of self-delusion. The moment the votes for chairman were counted, Howard Dean became the de facto voice of the Democratic Party.
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Managed? He and his supporters bullied his rivals. There was no reason to vote because the others had dropped out leaving Dean as the lone candidate.
