Clinton's Bashing Dean! Liberals are MORONS!

Clinton's Bashing Dean! Liberals are MORONS!




One of Clinton's top operatives is out there blasting Howard Dean.  Now why
do you suppose he would do a thing like that?  Oh, come on.  You know why.
It's because the last thing the Clintons want from next year's presidential
elections is for a Democrat to win.  Dean is the leading Democrat ... so he
must be attacked.


Dean Blasted by Top Clinton Adviser Ickes

Nov. 19, 2003

Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean was blasted over the
weekend by longtime Clinton adviser Harold Ickes, who complained that the
ex-Vermont governor is too quick-tempered and suggested that Dean's
expression of sympathy for Confederate flag-carrying Southerners should cost
him the nomination.

"He's quick of lip, and quick of temper and stubborn," Ickes complained in
little-noticed comments to Time magazine.

No stranger to emotional flare-ups himself, Ickes next criticized Dean for
repeatedly telling audiences that he wants to court fans of the Stars and
Bars.

"In another time, the Confederate-flag story would have taken him down the
drain," Ickes said, sounding almost unhappy that it hadn't.

Ickes' comments sharpened the focus on the rumored rift between the Clinton
camp and the Dean campaign juggernaut, a split which Dean supporters fear
may take the wind out of their candidate's sails.

Not only did Ickes serve as Mr. Clinton's deputy White House chief of staff,
he also helped mastermind Mrs. Clinton's successful campaign for the Senate
in 2000.

More troubling still for the Deanies: Ickes has been placed in charge of
crafting ways to ensure that the Democrats' presidential candidate has
enough soft money to compete with President Bush in 2004.

Though both Mr. and Mrs. Clinton have insisted they won't take sides in the
Democratic primary race, Ickes' anti-Dean broadside suggests that they
aren't happy with the prospect of seeing the Vermont liberal become their
party's standard-bearer.