Howard Dean Plays Mafia Card on Judge Alito

Newsmax.Com ^ | Nov. 1, 2005 | Steve Malzberg

[Cougar66]

"The democrats are circulating a 'hit sheet' headed by the charge that Alito, quote, embarrassed the government by failing to obtain a crucial mafia conviction back in 1988. He failed to convict the Lucchese family in New Jersey."

[Mo1]

But never fear folks, Howard Dean soon came to the rescue, appearing more than happy to take the credit.

Actually Dean said he didn't know where it came from ... but then proceed to list off all the talking points from the memo

What I did find interesting from that interview was how Dean did NOT want to go in record saying the Dems were Pro - Choice

No matter how much Matthews hammered him .. he avoided saying they were the Pro-Choice Party

[Cougar66]

Dean's a slug and Matthews is no better.

[Mo1]

Oh I know .. I just thought it was interesting ..

In an interview awhile back Dean referred to abortion as healthcare for women

Seems to me they are afraid of the abortion issue

[Teacher317]

He "failed to convict"?
With no reference to the evidence, testimony, trial procedures, etc?
Was Justice Alito supposed to convict on family name alone??
Is the good Senator implying that hearing the legal arguments is less important than reacting blindly to stereotypes? Hmm.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Screamer is talking about "embarrassment"...???

[des]

DON'T GO THERE, HOWIE. YOU'LL BE SWIMMING WITH THE FISHES.

[nralife]

""The democrats are circulating a 'hit sheet' headed by the charge that Alito, quote, embarrassed the government by failing to obtain a crucial mafia conviction back in 1988. He failed to convict the Lucchese family in New Jersey."




According to David Gold tonight, Alito did succeed in putting away the Genovese sp? family. He only lost one case of this type, and the Dems are making a big deal over nothing.

[ConservativeStatement]

A recycled favorite:

"Not only are we going to New Hampshire. We're going to South Carolina and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York. And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House. YAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"


Fop!

[Billthedrill]

I swear Howlin' Howie is a Republican mole. Gotta be. It's hard to imagine a political clunker worse than accusing an American of Italian descent with a record against drugs and organized crime as long as his arm of being soft on the Mafia. How much is Karl Rove paying this guy?

[BackInBlack]

"Seems to me they are afraid of the abortion issue"

What aren't they afraid of?

[BackInBlack]

Just out of curiosity, are Italian prosecutors always the ones asked to litigate mafia cases? I remember Giuliani getting famous for doing the same thing.

[NewMediaFan]

It's amusing and somewhat puzzling that a certified idiot like Dean could become head of the DNC.

oh well...

[Old Seadog]

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

Should we expect Howard Dean to mention anything about Bill Clinton, who declined to pursue Sudan's offer to extradite Osama bin Laden in the '90s? Or Bill Clinton's failure to recognize the 1993 World Trade Center bombing for what it was: AN ACT OF WAR? Or Bill Clinton's failure to put away corporate cheats who were cooking the books while Clinton was in office? Or Bill Clinton's failure to lock himself up for all the crimes he has committed throughout his life?

[JudgemAll]

Democrat socialism IS the mafia.

What is Dean talking about?

Maybe Alito should repent and say: yep, too bad I did not jail more mafias like you too, Dean.

[Cincinna]

The Dims should watch it carefully before ticking off the Italian - American vote with their Mafioso slanders.

Often times a key part of their base, Italian-Americans are very numerous in states the Dims can't take chances with like NJ,NY,RI and PA.

These folks love Scalia and will love Alito as well.

[saganite]

My guess, if you dig deep enough, is that they failed to get a conviction because the Democratic machine in NJ gummed up the prosecution.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Rush is right about his observation on that.
The Liberals/MSM/Democrats do not want to be honest, open, and frank about what their true core values are.
They know, that the American public " America's Main Stream " will reject them and their core values if the public were to KNOW what they truly believe in and they are afraid ( afraid to lose more elections ) if they are shown what they truly believe in.

They are trying to do this so they can fool the American " Main Stream " public into believing that they are moderates so they can regain power again if the public will vote for them.

We need to remind the public " America's Main Stream " that they have not, and will not change, and they are the same liberals as they always have been, regardless of their repackaging , putting on a new face of Liberalism and how they want to appear to the public's eye " America Main Stream " .

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Dems are making a big deal over nothing. " ...

Seems like they are doing a lot of that lately, to no effect ... ( well, at least, no effect to us, but, it is effecting ( negative effect ) them in the eye's of the American Main Stream )