Dean is more maniacal looking than McCain could ever hope to be.
This pic is from the psychos own web site.
Posted on 08/02/2003 8:47:20 AM PDT by Theodore R.
LOOK WHO'S FOR DEAN
It had to happen. Nine years after he last held office, 23 years after his own brief and—not surprisingly—unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Lowell P. Weicker Jr. injected himself back into national politics last week. The 72-year-old Weicker—the former Republican senator from Connecticut (1970-88) who was easily the lawmaker most hostile to conservatives in his own party (lifetime American Conservative Union rating: 17%). He became governor of the Nutmeg State (1990-94) over candidates of both major parties and then got a state income tax through the legislature. The man whom many consider the most obnoxious office-holder anywhere in the last half of the 20th Century—has bestowed his endorsement on Democrat Howard Dean for President.
Dean, Weicker explained, "more than all the other candidates, speaks to the issues that I care about—health care, civil rights, fiscal responsibility and, most of all, a government that is truthful with the American people." No friend of the Bush family, Weicker added his admiration for Dean's speaking out "against the hurtful and divisive policies of the Bush Administration," which he denounced as "reckless domestic policies and misguided adventures in foreign policy." Weicker made his endorsement of the former governor of Vermont through a conference call with him while Dean was campaigning in Iowa City. Dean, in turn, spoke with pride of his support from Weicker, who, he said, "has shown that government can be both compassionate and fiscally responsible."
Going back to when he played Franklin D. Roosevelt in a mock debate at Manhattan's Buckley School in 1944—when most of his classmates were for Republican opponent Tom Dewey—Weicker has always proved to be unpredictable in presidential politics. As a state legislator in 1964, Weicker voted and talked conservative and supported Barry Goldwater for President when most of his fellow Connecticut Republicans were for Nelson Rockefeller. After his own bid for the Republican presidential nod went up in flames in 1980 and his party had nominated the ticket of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, then-Sen. Weicker announced he would support Reagan for President but not Bush (whom he disliked personally) for Vice President—a strange thing to say, considering the President and Vice President run together. In both 1992 and 1996, Weicker backed Democrat Bill Clinton—although the former governor told me in 1998 that, had he been in Congress, he would have voted to impeach the 42nd President.
Dean is more maniacal looking than McCain could ever hope to be.
This pic is from the psychos own web site.
Looks like theres a war going on inside his head, and hes losing.
Yeah, just like he wouldn't sign an income tax bill.
Nutcasesayswhat?
"what do we want?...SCHISM!!
"when do we want it?...NOW!!!!!
Indeed there is. It is my understanding that the Nutmeg State is named for crafty peddlers who sold fake whole nutmegs (real ones were quite expensive) to unsuspecting victims. One normally would grate a whole nutmeg over a pudding or eggnog or whatever. But the fakes were made of wood, so the foods of the victims were flavored with sawdust.
Now, is this whole thing an urban legend? Certainly I could be wrong, but that's the story I heard. It would seem that Connecticut people value craftiness, even if goes over the line into fraud. Hence Weiker, Lieberman, Dodd, et al, I suppose.
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