Posted on 06/07/2005 4:11:16 PM PDT by SmithL
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, unapologetic in the face of recent criticism that he has been too tough on his political opposition, said in San Francisco this week that Republicans are "pretty much a monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party."
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No kidding. Say: can we take up a collection to encourage the DNC to keep this barking moonbat at the helm? More like this and the Republicans will have 65 Senators in '06.
Well it's not OK, but it is less offensive to them.
Send that man some shoe polish. I'd love to see the "Waaaaa" speech done in blackface.
Democrats ARE ugly!!!!
What a jerk.
I suppose Condi Rice and Colon Powell are whites.The GOP is gaining in the minority sector, particularly with hispanics, and blacks as well.
The GOP may have most of the (conservative) Christians but where else can they go? To the abortion, sodomite loving liberal Democrats?
Well, Howie is White (obviously) and Christian (I seem to recall him being Episcopalian to be specific), so does that mean that he has admitted to being a Republican mole in the DNC with this statement?
Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.
Howard Dean
People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
Howard Dean
Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.
Howard Dean
Sixty percent of us got $304. Has your property taxes gone up more than $304 because the president cut cops on the beat, refused to fund special education, refused to fund "no child left behind?"
Howard Dean
Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.
Howard Dean
The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.
Howard Dean
The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry.
Howard Dean
The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.
Howard Dean
The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.
Howard Dean
The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.
Howard Dean
There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.
Howard Dean
This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.
Howard Dean
This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.
Howard Dean
Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.
Howard Dean
We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don't care how far west you go, that doesn't have Democrats. We have to be proud of who we are.
Howard Dean
We won't always have the strongest military.
Howard Dean
We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.
Howard Dean
You know, to listen to Senator Lieberman, Senator Kerry, Representative Gephardt, I'm anti-Israel, I'm anti-trade, I'm anti-Medicare and I'm anti-Social Security. I wonder how I ended up in the Democratic Party. I'm not a new entrant to the Democratic Party. I've been here a long time.
Howard Dean
Not a fool...IMO he's losing it!
He's delusionary about all the millions of
little Democrats who are salivating to e-mail
him money for the DNC; he's berserk with
power that he thinks he has in his own party;
he's so used to being the big baked potato up
in that little state of Vermont that he can't
cope with the average American. He thinks all
of us are noodniks!
Hope he keeps touring around the nation with his
bloated neck vessels and the Dems who are REALLY
in charge don't grab the hook and yank him of
his podium too soon!
What an asset for the GOP!
All white, are we..........LOL. Let 'em think that. Idiots.
Like I said, spycatcher has my vote for ROTFL post of the day - heck, make it the week.
Clayton Williams, white courtesy phone.
I became white? When did that happen?
Gotta love Dean.
A Dumbass Doctor Kivorkian keeps trying to kill himself.
I think Mrs.Dean has found the happiness she deserves, finally.
That picture makes me think of the character Jaws in the James Bond movies.
Welcome to the club
He blows. Either in anger, condescension, overexuberance, or an excessively cloying attempt to appear hip or otherwise ingratiate himself with his audience.
Let's review his greatest hits--
10) I'm a square. I like Wyclef Jean and everybody thinks I'm very hip, but I am really a square, as my kids will tell you. I don't even get to watch television. I've heard the term [metrosexual], but I don't know what it means.
(Dean, at a campaign breakfast in Colorado, after being called "handsome" by an attendee and pronouncing his metrosexuality)
9) I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.
(Dean later apologized for his entreaty to Confederate flag-sporting "guys," stating "I think it's time to move on.")
8) I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.
(a canny strategy from the man who at the time was running against stalwart John Kerry, and in his debut June 22, 2003 "Meet the Press," Dean waffled on a balanced budget amendment, cutting Social Security, raising the retirement age to 70, cutting defense spending, and the death penalty)
7) John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
(Dean never did apologize for this unsolicited geneology)
6) We've gotten rid of him [Saddam], and I suppose that's a good thing.
(Dean made this remark before the Children's Defense Fund Forum in April 2003. He showed consistency in his charity to Saddam in December of that same year. After Saddam's capture, Dean remarked that it had not made America "safer").
5) Dean suggested that Democrats abandon Wyoming because of its anti-gay attitude.
(in a December 2004 speech at George Washington University, Dean stated "We cannot any longer be a Party that seeks the presidency by running an 18-state campaign. We can't be a party that cedes a single state, a single District, a single precinct, or even a single voter")
4) If Bill Clinton can be the first black president, I can be the first gay president.
(later, Dean clarified that he was a "square" and he didn't even know what the word "gay" meant)
3) The speech as it was portrayed in cable television shows 937 times in one week never happened.
(Dean, referring to his infamous guttural "scream" speech after the Iowa caucuses. Later review of the videotape does, in fact, show that while Dean appears to be moving his lips, he may not be saying "EEEEYYYYYYYAAAAAAAWWWWW" but rather "So, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart." Many suspect the work of famed Karl Rove operative
Senor Wences
2) I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. 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.
(Dean later clarified his remarks. While he did not reject his "old-fashioned" notion of determining guilt by jury, he added ""As an American, I want to make sure [Osama] gets the death penalty he deserves.")
1) Caller: Once we get you in the White House, would you please make sure that there is a thorough investigation of 9/11 and not stonewalling?
Howard Dean: Yes there is a report which the president is suppressing evidence for, which is a thorough investigation of 9/11.
Diane Rehm: Why do you think he is suppressing that report?
Howard Dean: I don’t know. There are many theories about it. The most interesting theory that I’ve heard so far—which is nothing more than a theory, it can’t be proved—is that he was warned ahead of time by the Saudis. Now who knows what the real situation is? But the trouble is, by suppressing that kind of information, you lead to those kind of theories, whether they have any truth to them or not, and eventually, they get repeated as fact. So I think the president is taking a great risk by suppressing the key information that needs to go to the Kean Commission.
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