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Howard Dean's Meet the Press Appearance Worries Dems
The National Ledger ^ | May 18, 2005 | Robert Novak

Posted on 05/18/2005 9:10:49 PM PDT by Coastal

WASHINGTON -- After Howard Dean last weekend declared Tom DeLay ought to be in jail, a longtime Democratic operative told me the party's national chairman had momentarily ripped off his muzzle but that it soon would be restored. My source erred, however, in believing that Dean ever had been muzzled. It's just that nobody has paid much attention to his rants.

Since his election as chairman of the Democratic National Committee [DNC] on Feb. 12, Dean has studiously avoided most national television exposure. But he has been talking constantly to party gatherings across the country, and his intemperate language at these outings contradicts the notion that he has been kept under control. That he will leap onto the national stage Sunday by accepting a long-pending request to appear on NBC's "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert raises concern among the Democratic political players whether he will contain himself.

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To: Blurblogger

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!


41 posted on 05/18/2005 10:09:35 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (Allen/DeLay '08!!)
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To: dead

Oh my gosh; I laughed out loud. That's so great!


42 posted on 05/18/2005 10:15:35 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: clintonh8r; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Interesting Times; ...

Dean Cliff Notes Version            Dean Full Manic Rant





Vincente Fox - translated




43 posted on 05/18/2005 10:28:28 PM PDT by devolve (My WWII Tribute: http://pro.lookingat.us/WWII.html - more traffic than DU-Koz-LDot)
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To: Coastal
>>>What he said was too much even for so tough a partisan Democrat as Rep. Barney Frank, who attended his state's convention in Lowell and was appalled by Dean's language. <<<

What? Dean didn't lisp enough?

44 posted on 05/18/2005 10:53:07 PM PDT by HardStarboard (With Lebanon simmering, Iran on medium-high, whose next? I vote Syria....lets turn up the heat!)
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To: nopardons

This begs the question: Tim WHO? **S**


45 posted on 05/18/2005 11:41:17 PM PDT by dk/coro
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To: dk/coro

Yes, it certainly does and I almost posted just that. :-)


46 posted on 05/18/2005 11:48:01 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

we used to see mcawful three maybe four times a week the dems need to put dean on tv at least that much


47 posted on 05/19/2005 12:52:27 AM PDT by jneesy (certified southern right wing hillbilly nutjob)
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To: jneesy
They do, but who could stand hearing the screamer of lies that often? Even most of the damned Dems can't stand him.

When Barney Franks, BARNEY FRANKS, for crying out loud, goes on T.V. and condemns Screamin' mimi Dean, you know that things are bad.

48 posted on 05/19/2005 12:56:22 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: PhilDragoo; Stellar Dendrite; devolve

Dykes for Dean


49 posted on 05/19/2005 2:04:36 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Howlin; Mo1
OK, I am up early and ready to put forth my tin-foil theory for the day. There are two parts:

1. Dean's fundraising through the internet was some sort of scam to cover the money Soros pumped into his campaign. My theory is that it was done through dummy credit=card accounts automatically directed to donate an amount below the threshhold requiring personal information.

Notice how Dean's campaign would announce a "challenge" and suddenly they would get a lot of donations? Notice how Kerry started getting internet money when Dean's computer guru went to work for him? Now that the campaign is over (and Soros has gone on to other ways of pumping money to left-wing causes), Dean amazingly can't raise any money.

2. Dean is being set up by Russert. Since he is supposedly a "friendly" venue, Dean will not be expecting the rabid attack he will receive. Melt down will occur, and an emergency meeting of the DNC will restore McAwful.

Now I will go make myself a second cup of coffee .

50 posted on 05/19/2005 2:43:13 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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 HOWARD     DEAN 
            
 TWILIGHT    ZONE 


51 posted on 05/19/2005 2:45:35 AM PDT by devolve (My WWII Tribute: http://pro.lookingat.us/WWII.html - more traffic than DU-Koz-LDot)
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To: Stellar Dendrite
Thanks...added to Today's Toons 5/19/05.


52 posted on 05/19/2005 3:10:53 AM PDT by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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To: Miss Marple
This really p'd me off:
Dean has not always kept himself faithful to the Democratic message. On Feb. 23 at Cornell University, he blurted out that Social Security benefits -- if the system is left unchanged -- 30 years from now will be 80 percent of what they are now. That was a shocking departure from the party line that nothing has to be done.

But the only place that Dean's Social Security departure appeared was in the Cornell Daily Sun, the student newspaper. His limited exposure generally means that little of what he says is communicated to the public.

Now if the GOP chairman were going around the country mouthing off like that.....

Is it too early to say how much I hate the MediaCrats?!!

53 posted on 05/19/2005 3:30:20 AM PDT by Timeout (Dean & the Bike Path Left: aging anti-warriors who use "summer" as a verb~~Jonah)
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To: Stonedog
Howard Dean is a walking advertisement for the advantages of conservatism.

There can no longer be any doubt. Howard Dean is a stealth Conservative, doing our work from inside the Dim's own party.

Recruited as a college freshman soon after the '64 Goldwater fiasco, by a secret, elite think-tank of far-seeing conservative intellectuals, he has worked his way up the liberal ladder, studying intensely their psychology, methods and motivations. He has never blown his cover. Let us all wish him continued success.

54 posted on 05/19/2005 4:53:37 AM PDT by ARepublicanForAllReasons (Don't worry. My suit is triple-flameproof)
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To: Coastal

YEEAAGH!


55 posted on 05/19/2005 4:54:31 AM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse
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To: Stellar Dendrite

Holy Sh!t!! Man I am gonna wake up the kids with a posting like that! LOL. (Allen/Delay 08? Not bad. Not bad at all.)


56 posted on 05/19/2005 5:03:06 AM PDT by normy (Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.)
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To: nopardons
You don't suppose Timmy will ask Howie how he squares his statement on Delay with his statement about OBL during the '04 campaign...

"I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found," Dean said. "I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials. . . ." Link

57 posted on 05/19/2005 5:10:46 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty (~~Secretary of Keepin' It Real)
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To: Miss Marple

Here you go Jane..Dean on a talk show...this should be fun.


58 posted on 05/19/2005 5:10:58 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Mo1

He'll probably be alright on this show (due to the counseling of his none-too-restrained-themselves RAT cohorts). He may be alright on the next show (same reason). But sometime after the Dims relax about having him go on national TV.......ZOWWWWW!!

He'll say something racist, stupid, inflaming etc. He can't help himself, it's simply who he is.


59 posted on 05/19/2005 5:39:58 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Brought to you by The American Democrat Party, also known as Al Qaeda, Western Division.)
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To: Coastal

Heck with them, they picked him. All choices have consequences, so they can suck on that choice for awhile...


60 posted on 05/19/2005 5:41:14 AM PDT by raivyn (http://www.petakillsanimals.com/)
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