All the Way to Boston
Howard Dean is not going to cede his convention delegates if someone else wins the nomination:
Some weeks ago, Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe privately asked each candidate to drop out of the race when it became “mathematically clear” that the party had selected a nominee, a date he estimated would be no later than March 9 of next year. McAuliffe asked each to release his or her delegates and endorse the presumptive winner before the convention.Dean refused. “It’s not going to happen,” he told U.S. News. “I’m not deliberately going to sit it out [in order to] have an uncontentious convention. I certainly want the Democratic nominee to win and I hope it’s me, but this is about building the party, and I’m building the party and I’m in for the long run.”
Dean is the gift that keeps on giving. Not only is he dragging all the Democratic candidates to the left, he’ll screw things up for the Democrats whether he wins the nomination or not! Imagine a divisive Democratic convention in 2004 with Al Sharpton and Howard Dean getting prime air time. Karl Rove couldn’t script it better if he were allowed to.
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