Washington Journal Alert: Terry McAuliffe

Let's hear his latest minions...comments welcome.

I think I've seen him on TV before...

except be effective

Let's give him a good 30 seconds before we impale him here.

You want us to be fair and balanced. ;-)

He gets to come up with cock-eyed campaign strategies that hand congress to the Republicans in 2002, result in the recall of a Democratic governor in Califoria and allow the Texas GOP to redistrict at will.

There's not much the Party's base can do except stand by and watch in horror as this fool continues to sacifice more Democratic maidens to the yuppie fascict dragon.

So he's a good fundraiser? I'll gladly trade him in for a less effective fund raiser who has a better idea of what to do with the funds raised.

We should, too.

I thought he should have been sacked after 2002...he's so out of touch with the mainstream Democrats and a fund raising lightning rod for the GOOP.

I'm waiting to hear him talk about support for local Democratic races next year...doesn't the DNC deal with those anymore?

Drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, and see what comes out.

We've all met greasy people like this in life, this shit is not funny anymore.

Where's the REAL people when we need them?

"Drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, and see what comes out."

No wonder Democrats lose election after election, with an attitude like that. Isn't Carville out fellating the rich coup-plotters in Venezuela right now?

Tell me why I shouldn't flag your bigoted comment?

We could have Ed Gillespie.

...and there's Gillespie's picture. He's got the worst smirk of all these oxygen thieves.

Sad thing is he wraps McAuliffe around a tree anytime they're head-to-head...thus Terry only goes on under the protection of a Bill Press or James Carville/Paul Begala.

he seemingly had no qualifications for the job other than being Bill's fundraiser. Generally, heads of parties are former governors, or former somethings.

Might as well have Richard Perle heading the DNC.

I can see why the GOOPs use this guy as someone to slam all of us. He's too rehearsed...too K Street and too bi-polar...passionate in bashing WhistleAss, then doscile on any specifics on how to stand up to this regime.

We're getting our asses kicked inside the beltway, folks...and here's exhibit 1.

This man appears to be nothing more than a used car salesman I've seen on TV, but he's doing a bad impersonation...

I'm hearing a lot of disgruntled minority callers...frustrated...and they just showed us in California they'd rather stay home. Someone better get control of the national party before it hits another cement piling.

I just grimace anytime I get a fundraising letter from them these days, because it is long on "President Bush is destroying our country by doing THIS, he's hurting us by doing THAT" -- but when it come to actually offering forth specifics on what to do, all that is there is the sound of crickets chirping.

Certainly, there are the same tired platitudes -- improve education, help working families, yada yada yada -- but those same platitudes just won't inspire people anymore. Hell, they even fail to inspire this Democratic base voter.

Kudos on that! Sometimes I don't have a clue as to what our party is even thinking, or IF they're even thinking.

:argh:

Point out his failures. He's Haley Barbour with half as much money raised.

And before the campign finance rules banning soft money he was doing a pretty effective job of it.

If he only has one skill, and that skill is raising money, I say keep him on. We need all the money we can possibly raise and all the skilled people we can get to help us raise it.

This is not just a fund-raising position, but one that is the face of the party...who has to speak to all factions within the party to build consensus and support for the national ticket and interests while providing support back to the local parties to field strong candidates.

Or am I having one of those moments?

I'm not a huge fan of his, but I've seen some very good appearances by him recently, including a Meet the Press where he looked excellent compared to Gillespie, and Hardball, where he laughed in Chris Matthews's face several times at his stupid questions.

I didn't see him today, but the fact that no one has related a single word he said today, and that people are just resorting to empty name-calling, suggests that people are thinking about McAuliffe in a closed-minded way, hanging on to some impression of him they received at some point.

I'm not exactly sure what his position entails, and I'm not sure what skills are necessary for it, and I don't know how he got the job, so I have no opinion on if he should keep it. All I know is that I've heard him say some good things, and I think he's worth listening to.

If you disagree with what he says it's one thing but just to disagree because you are unhappy with the entire Democratic platform is BS.

didn't find a thing wrong with what he said. in fact I liked the forceful way he said everything.

Whatever problems we may have with 'ol Terry, when somebody called in this morning and asked him to comment on Joe Wilson and wife, Philadelphia's Dem Mayor being 'bugged', the Texas Dem's, and the Terminator's Coup in CA; his eyes lit up and he went in swingin towards the fences.

On the Wilson story: "We have two felons working in the White House right now!"

IOW - When the moderators of these shows ask the questions it's usually a mealy-mouthed process question that gets a pretty inside baseball type answer. When the facists call in and accuse him of being a Clinton Penis Lover, he has to laugh it off and try to seem reasonable in the face of traitorous idiocy.

But when on of 'us' (DUer or not) calls in and sets up lovely little 'remind the public what's at stake' questions, Terry actually kicks ass.

Seems to me, that as hard as it is for any one DUer to get through on the call-in lines, with 30,000+ of us, we ought to get as many of us on hold during these types of shows as possible. With our numbers, most likely one of us will get through. And that's the time to serve up those 'remind the public what's at stake' type questions and let our representatives on these shows kick butt!!!

Anywho, that's what I think.

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