The Houston Press‘s Tim Fleck is practically gushing over the recent Houston visit of Howard “The Duck, M.D.” Dean:
The motley coalition of college kids, labor activists, gays, attorneys and other denizens of the Democratic deep filled the theater and several candidate fund-raisers last week. They had come to let their leading party presidential therapist voice their anger and become its receptacle, along with their energy and cash donations.
Doctor Howard Dean didn’t disappoint. Unlike the storm that swept through town the previous day, the 55-year-old former Vermont governor and family practice physician didn’t blow down any trees or tear off roofs in the Hermann Park-area neighborhoods. But his stem-winding Huey Long-style rant to the faithful offered compelling evidence that he and his movement could produce a national political tornado before the primary season is over.
The motley coalition of college kids, labor activists, gays, attorneys and other denizens of the Democratic deep filled the theater and several candidate fund-raisers last week. They had come to let their leading party presidential therapist voice their anger and become its receptacle, along with their energy and cash donations.Fleck doesn’t bother to mention that turnout was poor, despite campaign staff heavily promoting the event at polling places during Houston municipal elections.
A tornado of 1,500 people, when the campaign hoped for 5,000?
Karl Rove must be losing sleep.