Posted on 06/10/2005 3:10:20 AM PDT by rdb3
It’s easy to dismiss Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean as a hard-core ideologue, a loose-lipped lightening-rod for the Democratic Party, and a man who’s perfected a form of yoga which involves opening his mouth and inserting his foot to the knee.
It’s always a mistake to underestimate the opposition.
Dean’s seemingly casual remark that the GOP is "pretty much a white Christian party," was in fact a calculated appeal to his party’s Christian-hating base. It’s red-meat intentionally tossed to those who view Christians as public enemy #1 – a clear and present danger to democracy, liberty and tolerance.
Dean’s right, by the way. Most Republicans are white Christians (82 percent). So are most Americans (67 percent). Shame on the American people, for being so Caucasian and Christian!
Speaking at a forum in San Francisco, Dean divulged that Republicans are "a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It’s pretty much a white Christian party."
So, Dr. Dean thinks Secretary of State Condeleza Rice, Janice Rogers Brown (just confirmed for the U.S. Appeals Court), and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales all look like Dick Cheney. Here is a new definition of ideological blinders.
Please, tell me the DNC Chairman isn’t actually accusing the GOP of being "monolithic" – especially with the memory fresh in our minds of delegates to the 2000 Democratic National Convention booing the Boy Scouts for refusing to bend to the San Francisco ethos.
When was the last time the Democrats had a speaker at one of their national gatherings who is pro-life, anti-gay marriage or in favor of an assertive foreign policy? (Because he opposed abortion, then-Pennsylvania Governor Bob Casey was barred from addressing his party’s 1992 convention.) It’s really a hoot for the head of the Democratic Party to complain that the GOP is monolithic.
In an interview with NBC, Dean attempted to clarify his "white Christian" comment, remarking that Republicans "have the agenda of the conservative Christians." And Democrats consider that nothing less than apocalyptic. For years they’ve been telling us that the GOP has been hijacked by wild-eyed Christian "fundamentalists" who are intent on keeping women barefoot and (very) pregnant, returning America to the morality of the 1950s, and establishing a theocracy.
While Republicans chortle over Dean’s latest comments (Sen. John McCain called the former Vermont governor "the gift that keeps on giving") and elected Democrats rush to distance themselves from the leader of their party (Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi all have criticized Dean’s remarks), in reality, the DNC chair reflects the views of his militantly secularist party. In fact, compared to some of his colleagues, Dean is reticent here.
Thus, according to Dean Democrats:
And Democrats still can’t figure out why most Christians view them with emotions ranging from distrust to revulsion. It’s been decades since Dean’s party carried the white, Christian vote. In the last election, John Kerry (ostensibly a Catholic) lost the Catholic vote to Protestant George Bush, while the American Catholic hierarchy discreetly rooted for the defeat of the one-time altar boy.
Straight-talking Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said Dean’s "snide remark" is "what one would expect from someone who regards white Christians as the enemy."
Precisely. Despite occasionally going through the motions – when he was a presidential candidate Dr. Dean said he had enormous "respect" for Jesus, in the same campaign, the DNC briefly had a religion-outreach director who’d signed on to a lawsuit to remove "one nation under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance – Democrats wrote off authentic Christians long ago.
Dean is playing to the Democrats’ core constituency – the ACLU, the National Organization for Women, People for the American Way, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Hollywood, academia and the establishment media – which is rabidly anti-Christian.
Their sentiments were graphically – one might say pornographically – illustrated in a diatribe of Timothy Shortell, an associate professor of sociology at the City University of New York.
Shortell lost his chance to become department chairman, when his views on religious people ("moral retards") became widely known.
"On a personal level, religiosity is merely annoying – like bad taste," the professor wrote in a 2001 on-line article. Still, Shortell continued: "This immaturity represents a significant social problem…because religious adherents fail to recognize their limitations. So, in the name of their faith, these moral retards are running around pointing fingers and doing real harm to others. One only has to read the newspaper to see the results of their handiwork. They discriminate, exclude, and belittle. They make a virtue of close-mindedness and virulent ignorance. They are an ugly, violent lot." Not only that, they also engage in ad hominem attacks.
In Shortell’s remarks resound the Left’s 200-year war on faith – from the French Revolution to the Bolshevik Revolution and beyond – from priests being sent to the guillotine, to Lenin shutting churches, to Castro prohibiting public celebration of Christmas, to ongoing anti-religious campaigns of the People’s Republic of China.
But, really, is there anything in Shortell’s vicious rant that the average New York Times editorial writer, or Hollywood scriptwriter, or leftist activist would disagree with? And, once again, they represent the Democrats ideological heartland.
Don’t criticize Howard Dean for being offensive. Thank him for being honest. Whatever election-year charades they go through, whatever smokescreens they throw up, Dean’s comments are but a modest reflection of the Democrats’ fear of and loathing for Christians.
Keep it up, Howard. Its a good sign when you know the majority of Americans reject everything you want for them that you've tried and and are trying to have liberal activist judges impose upon them for their own good.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Dean’s right, by the way. Most Republicans are white Christians (82 percent). So are most Americans (67 percent). Shame on the American people, for being so Caucasian and Christian!
Okay, we'll take white Christians and the minority Christians and the Democrats can have the rest. It's the Christian part they can't stand since they like white liberals.
Also, and probably MOST important, the % of Americans that consider themselves religious is increasing..Dean is appealing to a shrinking % of the electorate..
Why should we be surprised, the eradication of religion is always the principal requirement for the state to reign supreme. Socialism requires that the people have no one else to look to except the state.
Don Feder for America's first Jewish President!
Shortly following the Deaniac's crazed statement, and the TSM (talk show media) started swooning all over this ... I had the thought regarding Christians and immigration.
Many of the illegals, if not most, are Mexican and/or Spanish speaking people.
I've been led to believe that the south of the border people(s) are/were principly Catholic.
I forget whom (Jackson-Lee?) ... but one of those commies has publicly stated that all "they want to do is vote legally" and it is assumed that part of the commie congress plan is to pack the ballot box.
Which brings up my thought ...
OK Catholics ... this is not bashing, but it is an observation and commentary on that observation ...
Is Dean the loose cannon really gone wild, or do the commie's not consider Catholics as white Christians?
I'm off to work now, so won't see anything until tonight, but I'd really like to know what others think.
(After all ... I might be the stark raving lunatic and don't even know it.)
NO!!!!
I'm NOT going, and you can't make me!
Mark
You could also say it as Dean is offending a growing % of the electorate, too.
Hate Powered Howard is the best thing to happen to the RAT party since Monica.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Dean is making these spectacularly stupid statements and the Demmies move away, but what are they doing to remove Dean? Nothing. They know that the crazies in the party are loving every minute of Dean and all they have to do is back away a bit and they seem innocent. Dean is doing exactly what they want him to do holding the crazies in check while they seem to have clean hands.
That pretty much hit it on the nose.
In fact, he's an older, maler, Jewisher Ann Coulter.
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Just you watch how dangerous we can be Mr Harkin.
Here is an example
Dear Jesus, I hope you can open the eyes of Mr Harkin. While now he is lost from you. I pray you will someday be loved by Mr Harkin and he can enjoy your gift of life never ending.
ARE YA SCARED NOW -- dummycrats.
Another interesting phenomena is the overwhelming tendency for Christian blacks to vote democrat.
I happen to like listening to black preachers; they are very funny and I like their dialect. It hits home.
HOWEVER, I always wonder in the back of my mind, "who did this guy/gal vote for in the last election?" How can these otherwise Biblically conservative brethren vote for a party that openly advocates killing unborn children, removing religious expression in public life, school vouchers, sexual immorality, homosexual marriage and "plantation living"?
I realize historically they vote democrat (as do most Jews BTW, something I still also fume about!) but it is about time black Christians start being Christians instead of "African-American Christians" or "minority Christians." In Christ there is NO black or white; why must race be their first identifier? It should be the last.
If the black Christians thought this way, the dems would lose most of the black vote.
It always infuriates me when Bill Sink Clinton can go preach at a black church to garner votes and nobody says a thing but God forbid a conservative would go to ANY church to speak: there would be riots and picketing, guaranteed.
I play this at the fault of black Christian leaders, who no matter how much they love God, still have a chip on their shoulder and vote with that chip.
ooops... I meant to say that Dems vote AGAINST school vouchers.... this is an issue that most blacks are FOR... sorry....
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