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Home Front: Politix
Dean to Stay in Race Until Ringing in Head Stops
2004-02-10
Scrappleface
(2004-02-09) -- Former Democrat presidential frontrunner Howard Dean today reversed his previous pledge to drop out of the race if he loses the Wisconsin primary. He now promises to stay in "until this ringing in my head stops."
“Ding dong- ya ok Howard just take a nice nap now, the men in the white coats are on the way”
"Even if I don’t win Wisconsin or any other state, I will continue to run," Mr. Dean told a small crowd of supporters in Sheboygan.
“Probably there to see if he has anymore freakout speeches”
"If I don’t get the nomination, I will run as an independent. And if I lose the general election, I will immediately announce my 2008 campaign and keep running. I will never stop running for president. This is my profession -- my calling.
“I’m not self delusional am I? ..they’re coming to take me way ha ha, they’re coming to take me away ho ho hee hee, to the funny farm
.”
The ringing in my head beckons me to strive inexorably onward. Can you hear the ringing? Can you hear it?"
“uh ya man sure

.ya we hear it
”
The crowd erupted in applause and shouts of "Yes, we hear it. Run Howard, run!"
“Similar to people who have been known to egg on suicide jumpers”
Posted by:dataman1

#12  Could be right Hiryu.... but who currently is the Harold Stassen? It's kind of an open niche in the Democratic side.... McGovern ran twice... once after losing.... Gene McCarthy? 3 times? Senator Hartpence was looking to give it a try but lost his nerve.... Okay here's my bet Hiryu... let me know in 12 years... Al Gore.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-2-10 7:12:10 PM  

#11  I dunno, he might have a future as the Harold Stassen of the new century.
Posted by: Hiryu   2004-2-10 6:33:00 PM  

#10  That would be sweet if Dean-o would run as a Green! Bush, Kerry and Dean in a debate. Bush would crush those mental midgets. Rove is probably popping wood just thinking about the possibilities of Mad Howard running Green.
Posted by: Swiggles   2004-2-10 1:52:47 PM  

#9  Anonymous2U,

The dems would be so pissed at dean... and rove would be so proud of him. I bet Rove has teams of advisors posing as deaniacs trying to convince him to run as a green :)
Posted by: Damn_Proud_American   2004-2-10 12:19:56 PM  

#8  Don't worry about it, dataman1.

He's not going anywhere, this was on Bros. Judd:


Via Bros. Judd:

Former Vermont Gov. Howie Dean and his advisers are looking into options that would allow him to run for president on the Green Party ticket should he fail in his bid to wrench the Democratic nomination away from Sen. John Kerry.

Dean had been looking at the Green Party long before his campaign caught fire. As early as late last summer, Dean was considering the Greens as an option, particularly because at the time Ralph Nader, the Green nominee in 2000, appeared less interested in a run.

"This isn't a ploy to get Democrats to pay attention to us," says a Deaniac in Washington. "This is about ensuring that our man's views and this supporters' views get carried into the fall campaign. A Green Party bid puts him in the debates with Bush and whomever the Democrats nominate. It keeps us viable."
Posted by: Anonymous2U   2004-2-10 12:10:35 PM  

#7  LMAO, being that it's about the man who made "YYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!" famous, this article could have been in the wall street journal and I wouldn't of been suprised in the least.
Posted by: Damn_Proud_American   2004-2-10 12:08:41 PM  

#6  dataman, we have ALL made that mistake at least once. And it is hard to tell when looking at that the Dims.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter)   2004-2-10 11:18:30 AM  

#5  Fisking a Scrappleface.....or is it Scraping a Fiskiface? You decide.
Posted by: john   2004-2-10 10:14:14 AM  

#4  And let's be honest -- it's really tough to tell the difference between Dean's actual behavior and satire.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-2-10 10:09:15 AM  

#3  I took it as an actual report and not satire. I've just begun getting into these BLOG's and probably will make a few more mistakes like that.
Posted by: dataman1   2004-2-10 9:52:13 AM  

#2  I'm not certain that dataman recognized it for satire...
Posted by: Aris Katsaris   2004-2-10 9:28:00 AM  

#1  why add comments to a scrappleface piece, which is already satire?
Posted by: liberalhawk   2004-2-10 9:14:51 AM  

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