Day: June 7, 2005

In the SF Chronicle piece referenced in Bill’s post below, Wade Randlett, a Silicon Valley Dem Party fund raiser noted a recent Business Week story saying Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman was lapping Dean on the fund raising circuit.

According to the story, the DNC has raised less than half of the $42.6 million raised by the RNC in the first four months of the year.Dean, whose schedule in San Francisco Monday included the roundtable, a visit to a gay and lesbian house party, and a fund-raiser, called the report “total hooey.””It’s silliness and gossip. We’re raising twice as much money as we did in 2003,” Dean said. “We’re raising a million dollars a week. We’re doing fine.”

Hmmm…first four months of the year…one million a week…isn’t that like, 16 million to the RNC’s 42 mil?!? Yeah, that’s total hooey. This is like watching the OJ slow speed chase all over again. Dean’s gotta stay!!

Dean has done it again…

“They all behave the same. They all look the same. It’s pretty much a white Christian party”…

Listen for yourself, here.

The question is, how long before the rest of the party throws him under the bus? Or, will they all commit political suicide and agree with Howard?

Either way, this is gonna be great.

MORE: And, like clockwork, here comes the backtrack:

Dean, speaking in a roundtable discussion Monday, downplayed the controversy over his rhetoric.

“This is one of those flaps that comes up once in awhile when I get tough,” Dean said. “We have to be rough on the Republicans. Republicans don’t represent ordinary Americans and they don’t have any understanding of what it is to go out and try and make ends meet.”

Dean said that he had been addressing the matter of Americans standing in long lines to vote.

“What I said was the Republican leadership didn’t seem to care much about working people,” he said. “That’s essentially the gist of the quote.”

Cow’s outta the barn Howie.

Where do I begin?