Posted on 02/15/2005 5:54:50 PM PST by wagglebee
The National Socialist Democrat Abortion Party (NSDAP) has found its Leon Trotsky. His name is Howard Dean, and, despite NSDAP claims to the contrary, as long as he is the party's national chairman he will be the face and voice of the party the public will see and hear.
Anybody who really believes that he will be merely a fund-raiser, political technician and organizer who will be content to lurk largely unseen in the background doesn't really know Howard Dean. He is no shrinking violet. Even if he wanted to, he could never accept the role of the man behind the screen pulling the strings and keeping the machine well oiled while others stood out front peddling the NSDAP's message.
Think about it. Dean is a media personality - the boys and girls in the mainstream media can't get enough of him. Just about every time he opens his mouth he makes news that ricochets around the nation's news organizations, killing any thought that the man is a political or ideological "moderate"(i.e., "I hate Republicans.").
Contrast Dean with the face and voice of the NSDAP the party insists will be front and center: Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, two of the least exciting personalities on the political stage today. Writing of their televised response to the president's State of the Union address, Peggy Noonan wrote of Reid that he "looks and talks like a small-town undertaker whom you want to trust but wonder about, especially when he says the deceased would love the brass handles."
As for Nancy Pelosi, Noonan wrote that she "continues to look startled, even alarmed, her comments are predictable and pedestrian. ... Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi had little to say. They made Important Sounds. Neither seemed sincere or serious. ..."
Making "Important Sounds" won't cut it with the media - they want red meat, and they know Howard Dean is the butcher who will supply it on a regular basis. Other than Teddy Kennedy, who appears to have gone all the way around the bend, Dean is the screamer the mainstream media are going to focus on.
He is, like Leon Trotsky, a firebrand.
Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein) made his name putting together the murderous gang of thugs known as the Red Army; Dean gained a lot of notoriety early on organizing the unruly children's crusade known as the Deaniacs, who followed this pied piper into the red-state sea, where their hopes and dreams and fantasies drowned.
And like Trotsky, he is also an ardent socialist who, no matter what his supporters allege, looks always to the left. He is no centrist. Nor is his party centrist - it is a socialist party through and through, and Howard Dean fits that party like a glove.
Although brilliant and articulate, he is also a loose cannon, capable of firing leftist rhetoric like grapeshot and garnering huge coverage from the media as a result.
Like others in the NSDAP, Dean is making noise about the need for his party to have a message, to stand for something other than obstructing the president and gutting his policies. The fact of the matter is, that's exactly what they stand for. They have nothing to offer but old and tired slogans that rotate around the theme that the Republicans are the party of the rich and the Democrats are the party of the "common man." (A term of derision, when you get right down to it; who wants to be called "common"? Americans are the most uncommon human beings in history.)
The rhetoric may be altered from time to time, but the message remains the same. And Howard Dean is the ideal messenger. His loud voice will be heard drowning out the whimpers of the congressional leadership supposedly charged with setting NSDAP policy.
The NSDAP is aghast at the thought that the rickety old Social Security system is in crisis mode and must be reformed now before it begins to crumble in a mere 13 years. They are outraged by the very idea that workers - those common folk they claim to worship and adore - should have any say in managing a small part of their own money. Instead they assail the idea of personal savings accounts as an underhanded attempt to privatize the Social Security system.
They don't tell you that they have always seen the so-called trust fund as their own personal piggy bank, to be looted annually to pay for their socialist schemes and appear to do so without raising taxes and burdening the American people with the cost. (Yeah, I know, the GOP did it too, but where do you think they learned how it's done?)
That's why they go bonkers when anybody tries to meddle with their scam by attempting to reform it and put it on a sound fiscal basis.
On the war in Iraq, many NSDAP members in and out of Congress, at least some extent, support the president. Their voices will be drowned out by Howard Dean, as vocal and committed foe of that war as is poor old Teddy Kennedy.
Whose voice will get the larger audience in the media on this issue - Harry Reid's, Peggy Noonan's "small town undertaker," or Howard Dean's? Like it or no, Dean's anti-war position will be the NSDAP's public position.
An issue to watch: confirmation of the president's judicial nominees. Reid may be the NSDAP's Capitol Hill voice, but don't expect Howard Dean to shrink into the background on this red-hot issue. Ten to one he'll drown out any noise from Capitol Hill. The media have to play him up - they can't help themselves.
Republicans are said to be absolutely giddy over Dean's election to the party chairmanship, and some have warned them that he could be a formidable foe if he moderates his Trotskyite positions and, like Hillary Clinton, appears to move a bit rightward.
They needn't worry. He won't. He can't help himself.
Like the controlling wing of the NSDAP, he is firmly wedded to the failed leftist agenda. And he knows that if he really did move even slightly to the right of Leon Trotsky, in a literal sense he'd meet the same fate as Trotsky, who Stalin had stabbed to death with an ice pick on August 21, 1940, for his apostasy.
The NSDAP abhors apostasy and punishes apostates. Remember what happened to late Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey, a Democrat who dared to be pro-life and was banished into the political wilderness for his apostasy.
Welcome back, Leon Trotsky.
The 'Rats are going to get even more comical as they continue to implode.
Like Trotsky, Dean is revolting all the time.
This is a good analogy. Think Dean will eventually move to Mexico City?
I don't know about that, but if he crosses the wrong 'Rat "power couple," I see a strong possibility of an ax in the back of his skull.
Trotsky was such a puppet, he could have had life on a silver platter, instead, he opted for a tortilla.
He made a racist comment during the Democrat meeting on Saturday and NO ONE in the MSM has even mentioned it---
This guy will get away with MURDER---if he can keep from doing his "stupid stuff" on LIVE TV, the MSM will make sure they will "whitewash" any coverage of him and Hillary for the next four years---and I don't think it is funny,
I resent the heck out of the MSM determining the news instead of just reporting it---
It was actually a climber's ice ax which Ramon Mercader used to bash Trotsky's brains in.
See #4, I knew it was an ax.
"You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!"
-- Leon Trotsky
"He made a racist comment"
Are you speaking of the comments about hotel workers? That was really something, wasn't it? It would have made the news had a white conservative, or any conservative, said it.
The dems can't admit that the Republican party is more inclusive than they can ever hope to be, and the way they treat conservative minorities is despicable.
I disagree. It is only a racist comment for those that play the Democrats game of pretending the world is something that it isn't. The reality is that black people are poorer than whites and do have lower paying, less skilled jobs.
It is also the reality that as long as the black community continues to believe that the Democrats policies do anything other than trap people into a lifetime of poverty that things will never change.
I figured you knew. I'm surprised the author of the article put it the way he did. The salient point in the way Trotsky was assassinated was that Stalin specifically targeted his brain, i.e. his deviant thoughtcrime.
That wouldn't appear to be a problem for Howlin' Howard vis-a-vis the rest of the Dem Party.
For anyone who doesn't know, NSDAP stands for "Die Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" AKA the NAZI party. NSDAP is the actual German acronym for the NAZI party.
Get a grip, people.
Mark
Okay -- you have a point about blacks being in some of the lower waged and less skilled jobs more that whites, but prolly not more that hispanics. I don't know and that really isn't the point that I was trying to make---
I am sorry if I offended you or anyone---the point I was trying to make was that Dean was showing his racist "thinking" by assuming that the "help" was black---
I gotta tell you, when I travel I see just as many white men and women working in the service industry--and do you know what?
I wouldn't hesitate to do that work if I had to support myself and/or my family---
I just think that Dean was not only showing himself to be racist but elitist also---and yet it is he and his party that continue to paint the Republicans as caring only for the rich--
I have read on FR before that there is a list of dems in congress that do have their names on a socialist party list--I may be wrong, but I am pretty sure that I have seen in on here in the past--
Not sure about all mentioned in this article--but if you listen to what Hillary told the fancy woman's group out in San Francisco last year, you could be convinced that their goal is socialism.
In case you didn't hear about it---Hillary told the women that "we will be taking your money and giving it to the poor people that need it" or something to that effect---income redistibution --and proud of it
...and if you don't believe me you can ax him yourself...
No, you're right about many dems being out and out socialists. Heck, Bernie Sanders is the only one honest about it.
But calling the dems the "NSDAP" is no different than calling them the NAZI party. And I don't even mean "The American NAZI Party." I mean the 1930's and 1940's NAZI party, complete with death camps, slave labor, and "the final solution."
Words mean things. And using this term for the dems cheapens the conversation.
Mark
Agreed. It's a cheap shot, and childish into the bargain. Whatever happened to the rule "whoever mentions Hitler first loses?"
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