Howard Dean doesn’t have a friend in the world. Now Susan Estrich, that paragon of moderation, has taken to dissing his famous website:
At the time Dean pulled out of the race in 2004, his much-vaunted website was getting one-tenth as many hits as George Bush’s. Even more important, the Bush team, under the leadership of then-Rove deputy Ken Mehlman, was embarked on a sophisticated technological project that allowed it to communicate with voters in key states and key groups the same way Amazon does with regular purchasers: Understanding more than name, address and serial number, Amazon knows what I like, and what my family likes, and what other people like me like, so that when they write to me, they know how to sell to me. So did Bush.
Didn’t the Moveon.org faction of the Democratic Party secure his party leadership on the strength of his grasp of technology and fund-raising? It looks like they were wrong again.
Susan Estrich must have a different relationship with Amazon than I do. The stuff they put in my recommendations is usually useless.
It doesn’t take much to be more insightful than Crazy Howie.