Tim Blair

Why fire this guy except as a scapegoat? Dean had come out of nowhere thanks to this guy's strategies. Then Dean screamed on national TV. Dean should've fired himself.

I understand that Dean brought in someone new and Trippi resigned.

Whatever.

You know, as bizarre as the primary system is (let's have three or four of the LEAST typical states pick for us and skew the whole process toward tax relief and ethanol subsidies), there is something about it that's good in how it forces the candidates to behave under a kind of pressure and reveal something of themselves.

Now we know that after 9-11, Howard Dean would have changed Secretaries of State three times in a futile attempt to appease France. That's important to know.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhh!!!! ONLY SECOND PLACE?!?! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'RE FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To: Trippi, Joe

From: Me

RE: White House Delivery System

Joe: A modem is sooooooo '90's.

Thanks,

The Management

The whole primary thing gets me too. Why can't the parties just choose their own candidates like ours do? It would cost far less money and would mean that the politicians would not be annoying the populace so much.

`You're fired', is word of mouth travelling at the speed of bytes.No,someone disagrees. Well, let me say this, if your guvnor were to say to you, you're fired', tell me it wouldn't hurt.

Also, the bit about Dean requesting his staff to forego payment until he can find some cash is suggestive:

Staff to Dean and each other: You/He would like us to work unpaid for a while ,until, of course, you can find some money.

Dean: Yeeeeeeeeesssssssss Sirrrrrrrrr, Yehaaaaaaah. Weeeeeeeere In This Together, So We Can Shake My Fist AT G.W.Bush, Mr.EEEEEEEEEEVIl.

Staff:General rhubarb of which this is one:

Yeh, Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhh, bugger off.

To be fair, he was offered a demotion, and he turned it down.
Not that this will help Dean and his 'outsider' campaign.

Well, at least we now know why Dean took a day off from campaigning...

Serf-size his workers, pull all his adverts, fire his 15% Campaign Manager, hire the Insider, a busy day.

If Nader runs again, I know where his new base is.

The whole primary thing gets me too. Why can't the parties just choose their own candidates like ours do? It would cost far less money and would mean that the politicians would not be annoying the populace so much.

Do you really want the Americans to have to go through nearly two years of their equivalent of Simon Crean?

He was like a bizarre amalgam of the Democrat front-runners, minus Charisma.

When you were out-Charisma-ed by John Howard, consistently, you got real problems, especially since the media considers Howard's charisma as a "weakness"

Oy vey.