Dean’s hot comment on Bush draws cool, caustic reaction

Manchester Union Leader ^ | December 7, 2003 | NH Sunday News Staff

[Tijeras_Slim]

Diane, could you move the mike a bit closer please?

[Clara Lou]

I hope sincerely that Howard Dean's campaign goes down in horrific flames. Ah, he's just popped up on FOX-- Tony Snow's old show. Ugh. I don't like Chris either.

[Russ]

There is absolutely nothing, whether it's Dean's commemts or Kerry's use of the "F" word, that will bring rebukes from fellow Democrats. Their party has sunk so far into the gutter that nothing short of a complete electoral massacre will ever bring them back to sanity.

[sgtbono2002]

The Dems are so consumed by hatred of George Bush that they are willing to believe he eats babies. I am not sure why they hate the man in such a vicious manner, but I feel its because he beat Gore who was Clintons man. Whatever the reason it goes beyond sane thought. It seems each Dem feels that in order to get elected they have to come up with even more vicious things to say about our President.Not a one of them is running a positive campaign, their only thoughts are anti-Bush, they have No, I repeat No, solutions for anything.

[Don Corleone]

He didn’t say it was a good theory, or a legitimate theory or that the theory had any credence to it.”

Then why did he say it at all??? Hmmmmm? Could it be because he has nothing else to say?

[Clara Lou]

At least Chris Wallace is giving Dean a hard time. He has asked Dean some tough questions and has had Dean stuttering several times.

[arasina]

He didn’t say it was a good theory, or a legitimate theory or that the theory had any credence to it.

He didn't need to. He knows perfectly well he planted seeds of doubt from which more hatred for President Bush will grow. His handlers probably gave him a little "Mission Accomplished" medal after the interview.

[Arkie2]

"He didn’t say it was a good theory, or a legitimate theory or that the theory had any credence to it.”"

So even Democratic operatives admit their candidate espouses tinfoil hat theories with no substantial proof. Yeah, that's the kind of guy I want with his finger on the nucelar trigger!

[HennepinPrisoner]

Howard Dean is doing what he needs to do: moving to the extreme (nutty) left in order to capture the leftie activists that actually go out and VOTE in the primaries.

But comments like this one will hurt him in the general election...when he has to appeal to both moderate Democrats and Independents.

[DooDahhhh]

The Dems would have made a better choice to go with impeachment of Bubba and replacing him with someone with moral authority. Did they really think that the Bozo having oral sex in the Oval Office in broad daylight would fly with the American people???? Not to mention the perjury! Who wants idiots in office especially during times of war?

[ImpBill]

The Dems are kinda like the Taliban and Al Queda and other Islamists. They hate everything and everybody that isn't a DemocRAT.

Now for some equal time - There are quite a few Republican's especially hanging around FR these days that aren't a whole lot better in hating those with whom they disagree.

[ChadGore]

[MinuteGal]

Your # 8 nailed it in three sentences.

Leni

[LaraCroft]

Amen. Say something about stopping the war on drugs, or that gays are really cool people, with great fashion sense and loved by God and you feel like a Christian dropped into the middle of the Taliban. Hate is so ugly.

Regardless, I don't think Deans Statement will make a difference, because the news media won't repeat it, unlike they would hourly if Bush made a small grammatical error.

[douglas1]

BEING a republican does not make you right all the time, I will happily take eighty percent though .

[RobertM]

I will never agree with their lies! How can you not hate them?

[Benrand]

It was really the Soviet Union that tipped Bush off, that's what Dean said.

[Dilbert56]

"He didn’t say it was a good theory, or a legitimate theory or that the theory had any credence to it."

Hey buttwipe, he said it was the most interesting theory. Well if it's not good nor legitimate and doesn't have any credence how is it "interesting"? Why can't a reporter EVER follow up with a logical question that gets too the heart of the matter.

[Physicist]

Well if it's not good nor legitimate and doesn't have any credence how is it "interesting"?

It's interesting to Democrats and to the press because it paints Bush as a fiend. No doubt the suggestions that Bush molested children at Neverland or kidnapped Dru Sjodin would be absolutely engrossing to them.

If Dean had said that the theory was good or legitimate, I might dismiss him as a nutball. In this case, I can only conclude that he is seeking to undermine the authority of his government, and the stability of his country, by promulgating what he understands to be a lie.