What about Timmy?
By Nathan Nance
Guest post by Nate Nance
With all this talk about Frost's sudden consolidation of support, Fowler campaigning hard and Murtha supporting Dean, we've forgotten about Tim Roemer.
Roemer has two people supporting him that show, ithink, the kind of battle the DNC chair race really is. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi seem to be the only ones endorsing him, and they're the suits. What most people seem to want is a change, something anti-establishment. That's not Roemer.
Josh Marshall also points to two votes Roemer made as a congressman that point to why he definitely should not be in a leadership position.
Roemer was one of the Democrats that voted against the Clinton budget of 1993 -- the one that in the end won by a single vote and cost Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and so many others their seats. (Not just the big vote, but a number that led up to it.) Then he was one of an even smaller number of Democrats who voted for President Bush's 2001 Budget bill. If I'm not mistaken, he was one of only 9 Dems in the House to vote to make the Bush cuts permanent the following year.
That really leaves us with Dean, Frost, Fowler and Rosenberg. I haven't really heard much from Rosenberg. He's had a lot of support from bloggers, but he seems to have fallen prey to the early-frontrunner syndrome. Talk of him burned out too early while Dean hasn't really made a move to run or announce that he is not running, thus leaving us anticipating it. He learned his lesson. I had all but discounted Frost, but I'm glad to see him still maneuvering like a skilled politician.
The way I see it now, Roemer is the congressional leadership's choice because they want to have control over the DNC's money. I think the Anybody but Dean group will put their support behind Frost because he is a little bit reform a little bit establishment. Dean will have support from those who want serious changes while Rosenberg and Fowler will siphon votes away from him. That leaves us with a Frost chair, which should make some BOR readers happy.
Of course, there is still lots of time before the DNC members vote and I've got to do what I can to win that bet with Andrew.
This is a guest post from Nathan Nance. He can be reached at nate_nance@yahoo.com.
Posted by Nathan Nance at January 5, 2005 07:09 PM
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So...let's see if this makes sense. We are going to get more votes for Democrats and rally our base by appointing a Republican wanna-be as head of the party, instead of someone who will uphold Democratic values? We are now competing for votes by being exactly like the Republicans? for the voter, that is like going to the store, and choosing between vanilla and vanilla.
This is sooo ridiculous. I have really lost a lot of respect for Pelosi in the past few weeks.
I say we change the name of the DNC to the WRT--We're Republicans, Too! The only way this party will survive is to stop pandering to Repubs--the strategy of "please like me, I can be conservative, too!" has made us LOSE the last 3 elections, as well as respect from people who are fed up. It's obviously not working, and sane, intelligent people normally try something else if something does not work!
