Posted on 06/03/2005 6:46:50 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean yesterday said many Republicans don't make an "honest living" -- the sharpest barb in a campaign-style speech to a conference of liberal activists.
Speaking to the Campaign for America's Future, Mr. Dean called for easier rules for voting, saying it is difficult for working parents to make it to the polls on time and wait to vote.
"Well, Republicans, I guess, can do that, because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives," Mr. Dean said. "But for ordinary working people, who have to work eight hours a day, they have kids, they got to get home to those kids, the idea of making them stand for eight hours to cast their ballot for democracy is wrong."
The Democratic National Committee later defended the former Vermont governor's remarks as a comment on the state of the economy.
"Governor Dean was simply pointing out what everyone already knows: People are working harder for less money thanks to the Bush economy. Republicans clearly don't understand that," said DNC spokeswoman Karen Finney.
Mr. Dean's remarks stand in contrast to a report released Tuesday by Third Way, a centrist Democratic advocacy group, that said Democrats are facing a crisis among middle-class voters and found that Republicans -- at both the presidential and congressional levels -- have a commanding lead among white middle-class households.
Mr. Dean's comment was reminiscent of when Teresa Heinz Kerry, during the 2004 presidential campaign, questioned whether first lady Laura Bush had ever worked.
"I don't know that she's ever had a real job -- I mean, since she's been grown up," Mrs. Kerry said of the former school librarian.
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Dean needs to change pharmacists or something, he is getting wackier by the day..
All of us can't be like Dr. Dean, living on remittances from the abortion trade, and playing golf in the afternoons.
So...MOST of the voting public in 2004 live off inherited wealth?
Howard Dean, the gift that keeps on giving!
"The Democratic National Committee later defended the former Vermont governor's remarks as a comment on the state of the economy."
Really? They didn't denounce it as slander? Gee...
I heard this little barb as a sound bit on Laura Ingraham's radio show. What a moronic liar. Frankly, my feeling is just the opposite. Most hard-working people I know are conservatives and also more often than not Republican voters. On the other hand, most welfare recipients, entitlement-minded people, and so on tend to vote Dem. I want to see all these Republicans he says don't work. What a doofus.
"But for ordinary working people, who have to work eight hours a day, they have kids, they got to get home to those kids, the idea of making them stand for eight hours to cast their ballot for democracy is wrong."
You know, I guess no Republican has children either...
...and none of them work...?
Dean angers me with his slander. Here we are...proud Republicans...an ordinary middle class family; my Dad works sometimes more than 8 hours per day, and I have at the moment a minimum wage job at a pizza place.
Shove it, you psycho. We don't need you, your fits of screaming rage, OR your little "government help" programs. We work honestly for a living, and we're Republicans, and PROUD OF IT. You don't represent us.
Funny, I'm a dues paying member of an AFL-CIO union and a card carrying republican; wonder how the "good" doctor squares that? 40% of union members voted against his boy john. If the press had guts they'd ask him about that.
He must be self-medicating.
Dean is rapidly revealing himself as a GOMER--ask anyone who's worked in an ER and they can tell you about the type. I can see Dean wandering around, putting newspapers down his pants and talking about Republican UFO Aliens.
I'd love to have the good Doctor explain the sore feet, back pangs, occasional cuts and other physical ailments I'll suffer periodically after a day of that honest hard work he states people that support Republicans do not engage in.
Maybe he'd like to explain the visible veins on my mother's legs for having spent so many days on her feet all her life? And for the record Howard, it wasn't spent walking the streets.
Perhaps he'd like to explain my own father cutting trees, working at restaurants, driving buses and working as a custodian to name a few jobs into his old age with arthritis in his joints?
I suppose none of that is a good honest days work, right Howie?
The more I think about this the angrier I am becoming. usually this nonsense flows off my back but this elistist fools' insults at the hard working faithful majority are starting to cease being amusing.
Did he give a single THOUGHT to the ostensible leader of his party, John Kerry, when he made the above statement? ...oh yeah, Kerry "worked" at being a prosecutor for a few years; - then decided to go into "husbanding" as a much more lucrative profession.
Question: Isn't the head of the party the most recent nominee for the presidency?......or, of course, the president himself, as soon as one party wins.? Dean is Chairman of the DNC, but the nominal head of the party is John Kerry..........although I'm sure that Her Royal Thighness would probably dispute that title.
Char :)
This guy is a zit on the butt of life that I would desperately like to pinch.
He wouldn't know an honest day's work outside of the combat zone in Baaahstaan. What a raving ass. His screed is deserving of a lynching.
"The more I think about this the angrier I am becoming. usually this nonsense flows off my back but this elistist fools' insults at the hard working faithful majority are starting to cease being amusing."
It's like Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" Statement that being part of the working class and living in poorer neighborhoods "makes you a gun-totin' psycho, and that's capitalism's fault." Funny, because I've lived in poorer neighborhoods, and I grew up in a working-middle class family, and while a proud gun-owner, I'VE never been a psycho or murdered anyone.
Drink early and often!
LOL EXCELLENT point!
I wonder if he had to contact Ted Kennedy to apologize after that.
"Did he give a single THOUGHT to the ostensible leader of his party, John Kerry, when he made the above statement? ...oh yeah, Kerry "worked" at being a prosecutor for a few years; "
Don't forget his running-mate, John-John. He made his living working hard chasing down those ambulances.
Be careful what you wish for Dean because most of your voters will be too drunk, stoned or hungover on election day, due to it being a holiday, to bother standing in line.
Dems offer to middle class: Election day holiday
Republicans offer: Tax cuts
Tax reform
Education reform
Social Security reform
respect
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