Oh, will it ever end? Dean at it again

[stormraiser]

The Deaniac is showing his multi-personality disorder again by saying he will stop campaigning but stay in the race. Huh?

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/377343|top|02-18-2004::04:54|reuters.html

BURLINGTON, Vt. (Reuters) - Howard Dean returned home to Burlington, Vermont, early on Wednesday carrying a decision to quit his presidential campaign but remain in the race for the nomination, the Los Angeles Times reported in Wednesday's editions.

"Though Dean is not going to formally drop out of the race, he is going to stop campaigning," a Dean aide told the newspaper.

"The move would allow his supporters to continue to vote for him in the upcoming primaries and have a say at the Democratic National Convention in July," The Times reported.

The decision was to be announced here on Wednesday; however, Dean had begun talking in the past tense about his bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.

The former Vermont governor suffered an apparent knockout on Tuesday in the Wisconsin primary -- his 17th defeat without a victory in the Democratic nominating process. Still, he came out swinging, telling backers at a rally in Madison, "We are not done yet."

While Dean's presidential campaign may soon end, he said the movement he began with his Internet-based organization and anti-war, anti-Washington message would push on.

"We will change the Democratic Party; we will change America; we will change the White House," Dean said in Wisconsin to applause from a flag-waving crowd of several hundred.

Democratic front-runner John Kerry won the Wisconsin contest, with Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina finishing a close second. Dean was a distant third.

Dean has said Edwards would be a stronger candidate against Republican President Bush than Kerry, whom he has denounced as beholden to special interests.

Dean appeared to acknowledge his White House race was over when he thanked the painters union on Tuesday for having "stuck with us right to the end."

Dean helped reshape the 2004 White House race by tapping in early to voters' concerns about the war in Iraq, health care and the soaring federal deficit -- energizing Democrats and sharpening criticism of Bush.

With his Internet-based organization, Dean also smashed fund-raising records and connected with legions of new political activists.

But while he soared to the top in the polls last year, he never saw his following translate into victories from voters this year.

[streetsoldier]

You can talk of gin and beer
When you're quartered safe out 'ere,
And you're sent to "penny fights" and Aldershot it;
But, when it comes to slaughter,
You will do your work on water
An' you'll kiss the bloomin' arse of 'im 'as got it!
For, it's "DEAN! DEAN! DEAN!
You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been?
You put some juldee in it
Or I'll marrow you this minute
If you don't fil up me 'elmet, 'Oward Dean!"

-with sincerest apologies to Rudyard Kipling

[TexasStooge]

Why am I not surprised?

[TexasStooge]

This photo is courtesy of Yahoo! News and Reuters:

A supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean walks down State Street in Madison, Wisconsin in a 'Deanie Baby' costume, with the state capitol visible in the background, February 17, 2004. Dean vowed to fight on even if he suffered a widely anticipated defeat in Wisconsin's primary, although his outgoing campaign chairman said 'the race will be effectively over.' (Rick Wilking/Reuters)