Howard Dean campaigns in Tallahassee

Tallahasee Democrat via Drudge ^ | Tue, Nov. 04, 2003 | Tallahasee.com via Drudge

[jjm2111]

Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean told a Tallahassee audience today that southerners have to quit basing their votes on "race, guns, God and gays."

Dean, making his first campaign foray into North Florida, spoke at a rally in Jacksonville then addressed more than 500 people at a luncheon of the Capital Tiger Bay Club.

He said Sen. Bob Graham, who announced on Monday that he won't run for re-election, is on his "short list" for vice president - if he wins the Democratic nomination to face President Bush next November.

The former Vermont governor, who is a physician, also criticized Gov. Jeb Bush for rushing through a law that allowed Bush to override the courts and restore feeding to a Tampa woman, Terri Schiavo, who has been in a "persistent vegetative state" since 1990.

Dean said he hopes to reassemble a coalition of conservative southern voters like President Franklin Roosevelt had in the "solid South" 70 years ago. Although his opposition to the war in Iraq and his criticism of the Bush tax cuts do not score well in polls in the South, Dean said he hopes working families will support his call for improving education and health care.

[jjm2111]

Open mouth, insert foot. Way to capture those red states.

[Fighting Irish]

[OpusatFR]

"Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean told a Tallahassee audience today that southerners have to quit basing their votes on "race, guns, God and gays."

?????

Do these guys know the definition of the word Sterotype, Bigotry, Prejudice, Elitism, and Stupidity?

[finnman69]

http://www.instapundit.com/archives/012358.php
ANOTHER HOWARD DEAN GAFFE:


Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean told a Tallahassee audience today that southerners have to quit basing their votes on "race, guns, God and gays."


In other news, Dean told a group of American Indians that "you have to quit voting based on who gives you the most liquor on election day."

Okay, actually the last was the comment of the reader who sent this link. But the stereotyping is just as bad in the real example.

UPDATE: Hey, maybe it's not a gaffe -- he's picked up a coveted endorsement because of it.


posted at 10:33 PM by Glenn Reynolds


http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/001321.html#001321
November 06, 2003
Rebel Flag Pickup Coalition Endorses Dean
(2003-11-05) -- Democrat presidential contender Howard Dean today picked up his first significant endorsement below the Mason-Dixon Line when the Rebel Flag Pickup Coalition (RFPC) voted to support him. The coalition is comprised of Southerners who display the Confederate flag on their pickup trucks. Last week, Mr. Dean said he would court such voters and bring them in to the "big tent" of the Democrat party.

"This is the first time we've ever been specifically mentioned by a presidential candidate," said an unnamed spokesman for the RFPC. "Most politicians try to pretend we're not here, but Mr. Dean has reached out to us and empowered us and made us feel like full citizens again. With Howard Brush Dean in the White House we will be marginalized and oppressed no more!"

The RFPC plans to mount an organized 'get out the vote' drive on Election Day 2004, in an effort to "put wheels to their words" in support of Mr. Dean.

"You'd be surprised how many voters one can pack into the bed of a Ford F-150," the spokesman said.

[TUX]

McAuful, Peelousy, Little Tommy Dashole, and angry Deano, the Dim dream team.

Can you imagine the difficulty selling this leadership in the South.

Even the NY Slimes will have a tough time spinning this far out bunch.

Stick a fork in the Dims, there done.

[rllngrk33]

McAuful, Peelousy, Little Tommy Dashole, and angry Deano, the Dim dream team.

Maybe a DIM dream team but a nightmare for America.

[OldFriend]

LOLOL.....taking a page from slick willie. Every state he visited he claimed a pol from that state was on his list to be veep or some other cabinet position.

Lies all lies!

[joan_30]

Everytime Howard Dean speaks is another vote for my President George Bush .. Now that Howard has announced he has picked my Democratic Senator Bob Graham to be on his Vice presidental list... ITs George Bush In 2004.. Lets make sure Howard Dean has access to every microphone and Tv station he comes in contact with as it is another vote for the Republician Party.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

"race, guns, God and gays."

Ok Fair enough lets vote about tax's then. So that would mean voting against Dean!

[cars for sale]

this is without a doubt the stupidest comment a prez
canidate has ever uttered............ever

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Lets make sure Howard Dean has access to every microphone and Tv station he comes in contact with as it is another vote for the Republician Party.

He really should be opening in comedy clubs and brothels

lol But thats ok i have plenty of cotton so when he opens his trap i dont have to go deaf from listening peoples laughter !