Comment on Tomorrow he’ll be yesterday’s man by Mark Steyn (05/07/2003)
Howard Dean has been propelled to a leading role in the Democratic race because millions of Americans realize that George W Bush took America into an ill-considered war. Howard Dean, for all his faults has opposed the Iraq War, and his campaign gives Americans of all parties a chance to show their disapproval of this disastrous policy.
Your writer does not do himself or your magazine honour by writing in such a dismissive manner of the only candidate who gives America a chance to escape the disasters of the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war.
Gene Berkman
It’s quite correct that Howard Dean is likely to be yesterday’s man by, at the very latest, US election day 2004, and the main reason for it is to be found in the recent flood of US news reports that supporters of George W Bush are already trying to raise more than $US150 million to help the president campaign against other members of his party to gain nomination as its 2004 candidate.
Since any other Republican foolish enough to run against the current president would face certain and ignominious defeat at the 2004 nominating convention, one can reasonably deduce that the point of this Ozymandian fund-raising is to prove even more resoundingly than was done in 2000 that that one can indeed buy the presidency of the United States, and to remind the people with disposable personal or corporate funds of the value of contributing to such purchases.
The 2000 contributors to the Bush campaign – at least, the richer ones – have done well from their extraordinary level of contributions to Bush 2000; and after next year’s convention, they can be expected to contribute lavishly to defeating Howard Dean or any other person the Democrats nominate.
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