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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"Evil Republicans who never sunbathed a day in their lives will deny ordinary hardworking folks the right to vote on the beach."
LOL--they're too busy declaring war on their children.
"Well, Republicans, I guess, can do that, because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives," Mr. Dean"
Okay, I believe it. Okay, that nut Dean is the Republican's windup WMD of the Democrat party's credibility!
Does Mr. Dean know that Ted Kennedy and John Kerry are Democrats who "never made an honest living in their lives"?
Unbelievable! The Democrats' "messenger" is killing THEM.
The Democrats keep on proving they are just dumb & dirty.
"All of us can't be like Dr. Dean, living on remittances from the abortion trade, and playing golf in the afternoons."
Dean's demagogueral is counter productive for his party's cause: normal average hardworking wholesome patriotic family people aren't going to vote for Democrat perverts, madmen or for a very strange powerlusting woman.
Dean apparently hasn't taken the Dale Carnegie classes.
"How to win friends and influence people."
If the dems intend any cross-overs of Republicans or independents, they might try not insulting those, who's votes they would like to have.
They seem to think that strident and sharp language is the winning game, in politics.
All my conservative and Republican friends and relatives work their asses off, whatever their income levels may be.
You know where I work, and probably know a lot of the same crewmembers I do. It is a fact that TSA ALPA voted at least 70-30 for Bush. Duane Wuerth was just here in HulasLand. The last time he was here, he was stumping for Kerry. Because of people like him, it is assumed that all union members are liberal democrat voters..
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