How Beltway Democrats Sank Howard Dean



By Joshua Frank, Counterpunch.org



[Attempts to sink the grassroots movement are still going on everywhere. Just keep an eye out for it. I'm just sayin' . . .]



Howard
Dean's Titanic campaign began to gain momentum shortly after Al Gore
endorsed Dean for president on December 9, 2003. Hailed by many as a
huge boost to Dean's bid, the endorsement, came at the same exact
moment Democratic insiders were meeting to discuss how to sink Dean's
advances.



Theories
of why Gore endorsed Dean spread like fire through the media
underbrush. As political commentator Adam Nagourney told Gwen Ifill on
PBS's Newshour on the day of the endorsement: “One [theory] is that
what is going on here is a proxy war between the Clintons and the Gores
over the future of the Democratic Party. I think there is an element of
truth to that. I don't think we want to exaggerate that.”



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