We’re getting closer to the November election, and despite McCain-Feingold’s prohibition on letting us know anything about who is running, what the issues are or whether anyone of the candidates has a position on anything, there is a trickle of info coming out.
Here’s the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee visiting an Austin TX beer garden:
Looking Familiar
I’d just spent the morning reading the Dallas Morning News from cover to cover. There was little about politics except for an editorial page endorsement of a couple of County Commissioner candidates. It would be hard to even know that all of the Texas House of Representatives seats were up for election as well as one of the Senators. There was a brief news piece about Governor Rick Perry, but that was news of the job, not of his re-election campaign. That’s why I was surprised to see Howard Dean’s pronouncement regarding his party’s success-to-be in Texas.
I had to click on the video. There he was microphone in hand, jacket off, sleeves rolled up, pointing to the crowd for emphasis. (Is it just coincidence that Dems this week seem to be doing a lot of finger-jabbing?) I listened as he talked about taking Texas back before going on the march to take back all of those other states. Then, it dawned on me. This simply had to be a dubbing of file footage from his failed presidential bid. It ended before the part where he starts the manic whooping and screaming to energize his fanatical followers. It was the same speech. If we’ve noted the occasional argument that the party of the left is doomed to failure for lack of new and dynamic ideas, this was certainly strong evidence of that fact. Almost word-for-word, he was mouthing the same false bravado that had failed him so miserably in the run up to the 2004 presidential election.
And, the location offers some insight as well. Austin, that capital city of one of the most conservative states in the Union, whose unofficial motto is “Keep Austin Weird”! In a beer garden, no less. Isn’t that where Adolph of WW II fame got his political start?
Prediction? It ain't gonna happen, Howard.
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