A Warning from the Architect of the Democratic Victories

I've been a Deaniac since 2003 and I'm telling you, Howard Dean is always right.

Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars:

Sounds like Howard is trying his best to warn the Obama administration that they have to actually do something about the economy if they want a second term. Since he's been nothing but supportive of the president, I hope this sinks into the minds of Obama's campaign advisors, who seem to think it's simply a matter of repeating the same uplifting rhetoric that worked the first time:

Howard Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman who helped Democrats capture the White House in 2008, warns that Sarah Palin could defeat President Obama in 2012.

Dean says his fellow Democrats should beware of inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom that Obama would crush Palin in a general-election contest next year.

“I think she could win,” Dean told The Hill in an interview Friday. “She wouldn’t be my first choice if I were a Republican but I think she could win." Dean warns the sluggish economy could have more of a political impact than many Washington strategists and pundits assume.

“Any time you have a contest — particularly when unemployment is as high as it is — nobody gets a walkover,” Dean said. “Whoever the Republicans nominate, including people like Sarah Palin, whom the inside-the-Beltway crowd dismisses — my view is if you get the nomination of a major party, you can win the presidency, I don’t care what people write about you inside the Beltway,” Dean said.

That would be the same Beltway Villagers who have been diligently rewriting history to erase the fact that before Howard Dean became DNC chair in early 2005, Democrats were Smirky/Darth's bitches - unable to win even gimme elections.

After Dean took over the DNC and installed the 50-State Strategy - that would be the same strategy violently opposed by Obama's BFF Rahm Emmanuel - Democrats took back the House of Representatives AND the Senate in 2006, and ran the table in 2008.

But Barack Obama made it quite clear, when after winning the 2008 election he kicked the man most responsible for that victory to the curb, that he doesn't give a flying fuck what Howard Dean thinks.

And that - almost as much as his constant conceding to rethuglicans and refusal to address the jobs crisis - is what will lead him to fail.