Is Howard Dean Doing Drugs?

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Recent comments by liberal Democrats give unfettered insight into just how absurd and vacuous their words and values are. Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" that homosexual marriage and abortion are not Democrat issues, they are Republican issues.

If Dean meant conservatives take issue with adult men kissing and groping one another at Walt Disney World and baseball games, and the wanton, willful murder of children, Dean is right – we do have issues. The very fact that liberal Democrats do not speaks volumes about their values, or rather lack thereof.

Dean asserted "The Democrats [were] not the party of homosexual marriage" and [they] certainly "aren't the party of abortion." (NPR's Morning Edition, June 3, 2005) To which I can only respond, short of being certifiable, high on LSD or some similar hallucinogen, there is no way anyone can make such a statement with a straight face.


The Democrat Party is precisely the party of homosexual marriage. Homosexual marriage is one of the main reasons given by black clergy and their congregants for leaving the party. If they are not the party of abortion, why is Planned Parenthood, NARAL and every other "keep abortion legal group" under the sun supporting them and telling them which judicial nominees to oppose?

CNS News reported Ralph Neas of People For the American Way told a liberal conference:


Seventy years of legal precedent and the constitutional basis for many American liberties will be undone if conservatives form a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court.

– "Dean: GOP Has 'Dark, Difficult and Dishonest Vision'" by Marc Morano, June 2, 2005


His comments were a thinly veiled heterodoxy directed toward women and blacks. But it is his ignorance of history coupled with his willingness to distort and mislead that is appalling. Neas was, of course, referring in part to the New Deal, but it is important to note that 70 years ago, conservatives and blacks viewed things differently than liberals would lead people to believe. The Republican Party at their convention in 1936 declared:


We favor equal opportunity for our colored citizens. We pledge our protection of their economic status and personal safety. We will do our best to further their employment in the gainfully occupied life of America, particularly in private industry, agriculture, emergency agencies and civil service. We condemn the present New Deal policies which would regiment and ultimately eliminate the colored citizen from the country's productive life and make him solely a ward of the federal government.

– "Democrats and Republicans: In Their Own Words"


It is also significant to note this was the time of Margaret Sanger – the patron saint and founder of Planned Parenthood – who was advocating the systematic slaughter of children she classified as coming from parents who were, in her eyes, unfit. Sanger was advocating a new type of "philanthropy." Sanger's "philanthropy" would not be in the form of aid, but rather in eliminating the world of its great "menace," that being what she viewed as the "[imbalance] between the birth rate of [those she saw as] 'unfit' and the 'fit.'"

In Sanger's mind, "Traditional philanthropy ... [encouraged] the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents ... who were the most devastating curse on human progress and expression." True charity, by contrast, should not coddle and perpetuate this "dead weight of human waste," but weed out these undesirables at the source through birth control" – i.e., euthanasia, abortion and "forced sterilization" when necessary. ("Angry White Female: Margaret Sanger's Race of Thoroughbreds," by Benjamin J. Wiker)

The aforementioned is the true and factual history that Neas, Dean and the rest of "liberaldom" do not want you to know. When Neas and his "shadow," Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights speak of "rights, liberties and freedoms, one should know and understand just what it is they are clandestinely saying.



True rights, liberties and freedoms are those found in the Bill of Rights and Constitution, not those some clever manipulator of established truth convinces an activist judge to change; not because the original ones are wrong, but because they do not fit the interest of a minority, who, without said judge acting as an accomplice, they cannot hope to promote legislatively.

Not long ago, a young lady shared she found debating liberals an effort in futility because they never debated or offered verifiable facts to support their claims. They simply said "whatever" and if you didn't agree with them, then you were stupid or not as informed as they – a very astute observation on her part.

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I'm so glad he's the DNC chair.

Vinny the Anvil
Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL
JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

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I'm so glad he's the DNC chair.

Me too!

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Hold his tongue? Not Howard Dean
Democratic stalwarts say he’s not what party needs
Updated: 7:53 p.m. ET June 6, 2005

Andrea Mitchell
Correspondent

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NEW YORK — Is this remark about Republican leaders the best way to court discontented Republicans?

"A lot of them never made an honest living in their lives," said Howard Dean on June 2 at a conference hosted by Take Back America.

Or what about this shot at Republican Majority Leader Tom Delay of Texas?


"I think Tom Delay ought to go back to Houston, where he can serve his jail sentence!" Dean told an audience at the Massachusetts state convention on May 14.

Or this exchange, May 22, on NBC's "Meet the Press:"

Tim Russert: Serve his jail sentence? What's he been convicted of?

Howard Dean: This gentleman is not an ethical person, and he ought not to be leading Congress, period.

In fact, Dean has been making some Democrats nervous for months.

The day after Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed in March, Dean called Republicans "brain dead." In April he said, "We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on" as a campaign issue.

Now, some possible presidential hopefuls are distancing themselves from their own party chairman.

"He doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats," Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said Sunday on ABC News' "This Week."

"My own view is, the chairman of the DNC is not the spokesman for the Democratic Party," echoed former vice presidential candidate John Edwards at a fund-raising dinner in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday.


One symptom of the problem: Insiders say big Democratic money men are "not ponying up." Big contributions are way down — even for a non-election year.

"He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat," says Democratic consultant David Axelrod.

Dean does bring energy, and he is willing to fight in a way that many Democrats say Sen. John Kerry wasn't. Late Monday, party stalwarts started rallying around Dean.

"He's doing a good job in terms of grass roots support for the party, but he understands, as we do, nobody's hanging on every word [from] the chair of the Democratic National Committee," says Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.

And John Edwards blogged that he and Dean "won't always use the same words. But we will always fight the same fight."

But some Democrats are not hiding their dismay. Monday night, former Democratic Party Chairman Bob Strauss told NBC News, "It doesn’t become the chairman of our party to be as loose with his lips as he apparently is."

Any predictions about when he gets fired? I'd give him about 6 months or less.

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***I'm so glad he's the DNC chair.



The Dems always seem to find a way to shoot themselves in the foot.........and Howard Dean as chairman is it

Marc SCR 6046 SCS 3004

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I'm so glad he's the DNC chair.

Yeah, he's the best thing for the Republican Party!

News:

Three top fundraisers at the Democratic National Committee have resigned at a time when its chairman, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, has come under fire from fellow Democrats for controversial comments and his Republican counterpart has raised more than twice as much money.

I hope he keeps up the good work!

The Dems need to fire him. But they can't stand the thought of admitting that they made a mistake with him, so they'll continue to cling to his sinking ship...

Meanwhile, the Dems will also regret attacking Tom Delay for his travel expenses:

More than 200 lawmakers have rushed to correct travel-disclosure statements in recent months as reporters on Capitol Hill discover more discrepancies in the wake of questions about travel by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

In terms of travel at the expense of others, Mr. DeLay is far from top of the heap, ranking 30th in value of trips taken.

The Dems are the gang that can't shoot straight.

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Look around folks there are goofballs on both sides of the fence.

Dean goofy
Rummy goofy

We survived the cold war in spite of the goof balls and they had the power to blow up the whole world.

We have lots of challenges ahead, pointing fingers at each other isn't going to solve our nations long range problems.

Grow up stay focused and get to work for the next generation.

R.I.P.

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I'm so glad he's the DNC chair.

I know, it's been wildly entertaining for me, and I hope it slowly tears the caucus apart. I'm waiting for another scream...

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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In S.F., Dean calls GOP 'a white Christian party'
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Tuesday, June 7, 2005

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 "a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party."

"The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people," Dean said Monday, responding to a question about diversity during a forum with minority leaders and journalists. "We're more welcoming to different folks, because that's the type of people we are. But that's not enough. We do have to deliver on things: jobs and housing and business opportunities."

The comments are another example of why the former Vermont governor, who remains popular with the party's grassroots, has been a lightning rod for criticism since being elected to head the Democratic National Committee last February. His comments last week that Republicans "never made an honest living in their lives," which he later clarified to say Republican "leaders," were disavowed by leading Democrats including Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.

Dean was outspoken -- as usual -- as he trolled California this week, stoking his party's coffers, and meeting with grass-roots activists. His San Francisco visit was at the tail end of a cross-country road trip, and Dean said that he will continue to pound the pavement -- and the GOP -- to get the Democratic message across to new voters, particularly in minority communities.

But Dean's style and rhetoric have sparked increasing criticism from inside the Democratic Party in recent weeks -- and gleeful Republicans say they couldn't be happier.

"Where do I sign up on a committee to keep Howard Dean?" crowed GOP operative Jon Fleischmann, publisher of the FlashReport, a daily roundup of California political news and commentary. "He's the best thing to happen to the GOP in ages."

"I'm thrilled he's the DNC chair," says Tom Del Becarro, chairman of the Contra Costa County Republican Party. "Howard Dean is scaring away the middle. People don't like angry people. They like hopeful people.''

But Simi Valley Councilman Glenn Becerra, a staffer with former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson and a Bush appointee to the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars, said Tuesday he was far from amused by Dean's suggestion that Republicans constitute "a white Christian party," and called the Democratic Party chairman "an embarrassment."

"I'm living proof that the (GOP) isn't what Howard Dean is trying to describe,'' Becerra said during a telephone interview. "It's a sad day when Democrats don't have any ideas to put forward, and they have to resort to race politics. President Bush didn't get 40 percent of the Hispanic vote (in 2004) because we're a monolithic, white Christian party."

Dean, speaking in a roundtable discussion Monday, downplayed the controversy over his rhetoric.

"This is one of those flaps that comes up once in awhile when I get tough," Dean said. "We have to be rough on the Republicans. Republicans don't represent ordinary Americans and they don't have any understanding of what it is to go out and try and make ends meet."

Dean said that he had been addressing the matter of Americans standing in long lines to vote.

"What I said was the Republican leadership didn't seem to care much about working people," he said. "That's essentially the gist of the quote."

Still, the words brought sharp rebukes from fellow Democrats such as Biden, who Sunday said Dean "doesn't speak for me ... and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats."

Other Democrats, including Richardson, said such comments hurt Dean's effort to increase Democratic registration, contributions and votes in red states dominated by Republicans.

But Alicia Wang, a DNC member and vice-chair of the California Democratic Party, said that "if there are any criticisms, it comes out of love. It's like family."

Grassroots Democrats "love him," she said of Dean, whose roller-coaster presidential bid drew thousands of new voters and donors to the party before his defeat during the primaries. "People again and again, say, we need him to speak up ... and sound like a Democrat."

But Dean's performance -- and his problems -- have become a concern to deep pocketed donors in California, particularly Silicon Valley, which is the No. 3 ATM for political fund-raising in the country, behind New York and Los Angeles, said Wade Randlett, a key party fund-raiser in the high tech center.

"He's got himself in trouble with social commentary, and that's not what the DNC chair does," Randlett said.

"For small donors, hearing 'George Bush is bad' is enough," Randlett said. "What I'm hearing very clearly from big donors is: tell me how we'll win."

Randlett said Dean has been criticized for not quickly improving the pace of fund-raising for the party with a recent Business Week story suggesting that he has been far outpaced by Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman.

According to the story, the DNC has raised less than half of the $42.6 million raised by the RNC in the first four months of the year.

Dean, whose schedule in San Francisco Monday included the roundtable, a visit to a gay and lesbian house party, and a fund-raiser, called the report "total hooey."

"It's silliness and gossip. We're raising twice as much money as we did in 2003," Dean said. "We're raising a million dollars a week. We're doing fine."

But Republicans note Mehlman wrapped up this third trip as chairman to California last week, and trumpeted an aggressive schedule in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Jose and Sacramento that included hitting Hispanic small business events in Santa Ana, addressing African American voters and women's groups.

"(Ken's) an operative, a tactician," said Fleischman, of FlashReport. "Dean is a politician."

Randlett said he hopes and expects party leaders will soon "have a sit-down" with Dean over his message "that we're smarter than they are, and we ought to be running the country."

It's an approach that appears "shrill, angry and dismissive of all things Republican," Randlett said.

Garry South, a leading Democratic strategist, said of Dean, "the only thing we can hope is that he understands the difference from being a shadow president to being the head of the party when we're out of office."

His job is to "get the Democratic Party ready for the next election," South said. But "if he views himself as the public face of the Democratic Party, then we have a problem."

Dean says the criticism doesn't bother him.

"I'm used to it. Look, this is a tough job. But it's not as tough as running for president."

In His Own Words

Here are some Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean's comments while speaking this week with minority community leaders and journalists at a roundtable in San Francisco:

On Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Gov. Schwarzenegger has been a big disappointment to a lot of Californians ... Americans are tired of politicians that break their promise, especially in an area like education ... so I think there's going to be a lot of questions about whether the governor really cares about average Californians."

On Schwarzenegger's endorsement of the Minutemen: "This is why I don't agree that there's no difference between Republicans and Democrat ... you would never have heard a Democrats talk like that ... I think the Republicans are always like this. I remember (former Republican Gov.) Pete Wilson ... got elected by victimizing immigrants. Republicans always divide people."

On illegal immigration: "(Democrats) understand we have a border problem. But we think that if you enforce the laws you already have, the people who are already here ... they haven't broken any laws, they paid their taxes, a lot of them are paying into the Social Security system and getting nothing. Those people ought to be on a reasonable track toward citizenship."

On past promises by Democratic officials to minority communities: "It does make a difference that we now have senior management that is African American (and minority) ... which means we're not going to have the white boys' club make all the decision anymore. Everybody's going to be included."

On San Francisco politics: "It's always a pleasure to come to San Francisco because I don't look so liberal when I come to San Francisco."

On the Democrats' strategy for the 2008: "We're trying to resurrect this party. We're going to be in every state. You're not going to see any 18-state strategies. We're going to be in places like Mississippi and Kansas and Idaho. We're going to be in the Republican counties of California from now on; we're not going to try to win by getting San Francisco and Oakland and Berkeley ... we're not going to sit around anymore. We are going to fight back. We haven't been fighting back."

You just can't buy this type of help for the Republican's. Keep it up Howard, we love you.

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Atta boy Howie! You go dude! Rock on brother! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Vinny the Anvil
Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL
JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

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I've been a Dem most of my life and Howard Dean makes my skin crawl, the guy is just plain embarrassing. I think he'll be remembered as the low point of the party's fortunes.

A good comparison might be with Michael Foote, the ultra leftist leader of Britain's Labour Party in the eighties. Foote led Labour to its lowest showings in the polls, being crushed by Maggie Thatcher and the Tories. Moderate Labourites even bolted the party and formed the Social Democrats (who are now in a formal alliance withh the old Liberal Party).

But out of the wreckage and almost unnoticed, a young guy named Tony Blair managed to win a seat in Commons during the Foote regime and of course we all know now that Blair rebuilt Labour into what they are today.

I just hope there's a Tony Blair type (maybe Barak Obama ?) in the Dems today who will turn out the morons who are running my party into the ground. It won't go on forever, we'll be back. Howard Dean will be a merely embarrassing stain from the past and a reminder that we finally had to get real about life.

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

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I've been a Dem most of my life and Howard Dean makes my skin crawl, the guy is just plain embarrassing. I think he'll be remembered as the low point of the party's fortunes....

(wiping the tears from my eyes)...
Finally a Dem that has some common sense.

Your almost there brother...just a few more steps....

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Go Howard, go Howard, its your birthday, go Howard!

What a tool... Icould not think of a better roll for him.

J

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

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If Dean meant conservatives take issue with adult men kissing and groping one another at Walt Disney World and baseball games, and the wanton, willful murder of children,

I stopped reading right here.

Scars remind us that the past is real

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If Dean meant conservatives take issue with adult men kissing and groping one another at Walt Disney World and baseball games, and the wanton, willful murder of children,

I stopped reading right here.

Dean also has a history of making outrageous statements and then later trying to justify them by saying he was misquoted, his comments were taken out of context, or he meant something else. Not only is he a nut, he's also a liar.

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I've been a Dem most of my life and Howard Dean makes my skin crawl, the guy is just plain embarrassing. I think he'll be remembered as the low point of the party's fortunes.
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It almost makes one wonder if this monkey isn't all for show, doesn't it Mr.tbrown?

Do you really believe that there are two parties in America?
I'm of the belief that Dems vs Rep is all for show.

I'm thinking that each are mastered by rich elites.

I'm thinkin' it's time we get some real folks to represent us in Washington .

I'm thinkin' that it's high time We take back the country for WE the PEOPLE.

I'm thinkin' that it is time We demand the government honor the Constitution.

Sadly,
I know that this will never happen until things get very much worse.

Blues,
Cliff

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I'm thinkin' it's time we get some real folks to represent us in Washington .

It'd be nice but I don't see it happening. Career politicians are the root of all evil.

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If Dean meant conservatives take issue with adult men kissing and groping one another at Walt Disney World and baseball games, and the wanton, willful murder of children,

I stopped reading right here.

Dean also has a history of making outrageous statements and then later trying to justify them by saying he was misquoted, his comments were taken out of context, or he meant something else. Not only is he a nut, he's also a liar.

in all fairness, I don't listen to Dean either...unless he's going "YYYYYYAAARRRRHHHHHH"

Scars remind us that the past is real

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probably... I mean who isn't.....

Dave

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Yea, you may be right, but it does my heart good to see the Democratic party implode. By the way, what is the difference between the Democratic party and the Socialist party? Thats right there is none.

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You see, those are the same sort of remarks Dean is making.

Listen, everyone. It's the first year of the cycle. Midterm elections don't really start for a full 12+ months. Now is the time the party leaders can say anything they want. Don't kid yourself into thinking it will make any difference by next November.

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You see, those are the same sort of remarks Dean is making.

Except there is some actual truth to channman's comments.

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Except there is some actual truth to channman's comments.

Please. There's far more simularities between the Dems and the GOP than the Socialist party. By that level of standard, Dean is speaking from the Gospel.

If you think it's going to hurt with votes, tell me, what were the odds any of you complainers in this thread were ever going to vote with him anyway?

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If you think it's going to hurt with votes, tell me, what were the odds any of you complainers in this thread were ever going to vote with him anyway?

None, I just thought it was kinda funny