WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic National Committee leaders embraced feisty party boss Howard Dean on Saturday and urged him to keep fighting despite a flap over his blunt comments on Republicans. After a meeting of the DNC's 40-member executive committee at a downtown hotel, members said Dean was doing exactly what they elected him to do -- build the party in all states and aggressively challenge Republicans. "I hope Governor Dean will remember that he didn't get elected to be a wimp," said DNC member Gilda Cobb-Hunter, a South Carolina state representative. "We have been waiting a long time for someone to stand up for Democrats."
And how does Dean stand up to Republicans? With loony rhetoric like this: Referring to Republicans: "This is a struggle of good and evil and we're the good." February 25, 2005. "I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, but I admire their discipline and their organization." January, 2005. "You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever and get home and still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well Republicans, I guess can do that, because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives." June 2, 2005. Republicans are "a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party." June 6, 2005. GOP Party Chairman Ken Mehlman joked that "a lot of folks who attended my Bar Mitzvah would be surprised" he heads a Christian party. "The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people .... We're more welcoming to different folks, because that's the type of people we are." June 6, 2005. That's probably because Republicans are “evil,” “corrupt” and “brain-dead” “liars” who “are not nice people.” Source: National Review. "We've suffered a couple of serious defeats. But we're energized, because we know that our vision for America is much better than the dark, difficult and dishonest vision of the Republican party." June 2, 2005. "The Republicans are all about suppressing votes...." June 2, 2005. “You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here.” February 16, 2005. "White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals on the back ought to be voting with us, and not [Republicans], because their kids don't have health insurance either, and their kids need better schools too." November 2, 2003. Received a standing ovation from the crowd of Democrats. "I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks." ''I think Tom Delay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence!" May 14, 2005. DeLay has been neither charged nor convicted of any crime. Alternatively, Dean believes that Osama bin Laden deserves the benefit of the doubt: "I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I will 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." December 26, 2003. "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." June 6, 2005. "(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." SF Chronicle. "I think the Republicans are always like this. I remember (former Republican Gov.) Pete Wilson ... got elected by victimizing immigrants. Republicans always divide people." Source. 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. "From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people." Source. "If Bill Clinton can be the first black president, I can be the first gay president." February 11, 2005. "Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party." Dean, who did an impression of Rush Limbaugh that included the sound of someone snorting cocaine, was asked on NBC whether it is "appropriate for a physician to mock somebody who has gone into therapy for drug addiction?" Dean said, "I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy." Source: Wash Times. Even that shrieking banshee Nancy Pelosi has backed away from Dean, but apparently, Democrats WANT a lunatic heading their party. They are so desperate that it's only a matter of time before the Democrats become violent, like they did when they formed the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War. I hope I can see the total collapse of the Democrats in my lifetime. I'm sure it's close, but my life expectancy is looking dim.
