Dr. Tyler; Captain America

Perhaps, but he'd probably just use you as a hitman (woman! sorry.) anyway.

Clever, but as usual, Jonah is rather lackadaisical with his actual research and fact-checking. I'm sorry, Roy Neel was the CHIEF LOBBYIST for the telecom industry? The man himself wrote, upon joining the Dean campaign... He was a lobbyist, yes. However, "chief lobbyist"? Yeah, okay, Jonah.

Now, I'm not the Guvnah or anything, but if you follow his campaign in the LEAST bit... is that even a question?

Of course, it's a lot of he-said she-said stuff. However, as I said before, I've seen a pattern of this shit and it usually leads back to Kerry. The first example was the 527 and the latest is this push-polling, which reportedly is also going on in SC and NM. Kerry's original campaign manager, Chris Lehane (who now works for Clark) was known as an incredibly dirty campaigner (he also consulted for Gray Davis). They kept much of his original staff on, IIRC. It's not too difficult to put 2 and 2 together.

Yeah, most of the small donors have continued to give.

I just want my pay in advance. Oh, crap. I think I just sent this post off as a "report." God why does that button have to be so close to the "quote" button?... WTF! I didn't do anything this time!

Fair enough, my mistake. The point is that it's illegal either way, and they've cracked down on it with the CFRA.

And we do invite you to come over to the dark side...

Yeah, and that deadly, constitutionally devoid bill that you so often scorn came along after that and made it illegal.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Politics/Th...lls_040117.html You're right, someone did record it.

Out of all these calls nobody managed to record one?... I'm sure the average American records his phone calls, after all.

Except you'd be arrested for it.

Err? Sorry if I don't live in Iowa and didn't get all this news. I don't think Dean has a shot, but he could still stage a small comeback. I lost my interest in him after all the lying about his money coming from "regular people" who just sent him a $25 check. How is it a lie? Does he get ALL of his money from grandmas and little kids giving their lunch money? No, of course not. Neither do Kerry, Edwards, Clark, or Bush, for that matter. However, some 90% of his contributions are less than $100... which is a lot more than you can say for most campaigns.

You're absolutely right, it's not the most reputable source. However, the fact that it happened isn't being disputed as much as who was responsible for it. Trippi thought it was Kerry, and I concur (after the bin Laden ad bought out by a 527 being run by "former" Kerry aides, I've come to expect this from Kerry's camp). You, however, can think what you want.

I posted it already... And the push-polling done by other candidates is a well known fact as well.

I have no inside 411 scoops, but the story has gone from "a handful of workers" to "some workers" to "workers" to "all of this paid employees", so one should probably take that with a grain of salt. He was probably thinking forward to a possible money problem if there was a huge defection post-NH. Check the blog, they're having no problems raising money.

He had a war chest of over 45 million going into Iowa and New Hampshire. He's only spent 8.5 million of that. Don't accept everything the media says.

Trippi is, and always has been, a madman. That's part of his draw.

He's *not* virtually ignoring them. He's campaigning in them, but he's not buying any ads. And KKK, I think that's more spin than anything. He's got money, just check the blog.

Sometime in November.

The money primary as a means for determining a presidential candidate is all but defunct, as we now know. Case in point: Dean has raised at least twice as much as every other candidate since Iowa, clocking in at $2.2 million and counting. I, as a "true believer" and a person who has been analyzing this for quite some time, think he can still win it if he catches the break I mentioned before. However, he does need to catch a few breaks, that's for sure.

I did hear a lot about the inexperience in the caucusing as well, and if you watched CSPAN's coverage of the caucuses (in which they actually had a camera in there), it was deadly clear that Dean's army of people that were new to the political scene was no match for the experienced precinct captains of the other campaigns. Shit, I could've done a better job than them. By the way, I did find the GQ article, and it's entertaining even off of the alleged Kerry roboting of the Dean "ones." http://us.gq.com/plus/content/?040127plco_trippi

Regarding the "dirty tricks" alleged in Iowa... this is from an upcoming GQ article. Sorry, no link; it was a leaked excerpt picked up by a lot of liberal publications. BTW: in politico-speak, "ones" are people who are "definitely" voting for your candidate, "twos" are leaners, and "threes" are undecideds.

There's actually a few stories of some really dirty tricks coming out about the Iowa race... and we all know why he lost NH. It's a chancy play, but so is spending money in the Feb. 3 states. None of them are particularly strong chances for him, even if he were to strongly spend in them and play to the voters in those states. He's still planning on visiting SC and MO, IIRC, and he gets more than enough national media coverage to slightly make up for the lack of paid advertisement in those states. Press statements like this are, in my understandably neophyte political understanding, just trying to lower the expectations in these states. This campaign could NOT survive another loss after heavy campaigning in those states, and there is NO question about that. However, if they now come in a strong second in one of the big states (SC, MO, NM) or possibly take one or two(NM and AZ are the two he could possibly win), that's a HUGE win for him. That might even be as big as the winner of SC and MO, provided it's not the same person. Right now, Dean's betting on Edwards or Clark beating Kerry in SC and keeping him vulnerable. If that happens, Dean's still got a good shot (especially while he's campaigning hard in the bigger states). If not, not.

Try browsing FreeRepublic.com during any democratic administration. Just because you turn your head doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and as we all know, Clinton's alive and kicking.