Conservative Leader calls Dean Dean Too 'Mentally Unstable' to Be President

Talon News ^ | January 1, 2004 | Jimmy Moore

[Reagan Man]

I respectfully disagree. Labeling Howie Dean insane is over the top for sure, but calling him "temperamentally unsuitable" is too PC for me. After careful analysis and evaluation of recent public remarks made by Dean, in my book he definitely comes across as a highly emotional and irrational person.

"-US no safer w/Saddam in custody"
-"Bush knew about 9-11 beforehand"
-"most dangerous admin in his lifetime"
-"Bin Laden shouldn't be pre-judged"

These aren't just statements by an over the top and desperate candidate. They are remarks by an irrational person.

Dean is far too unstable to be my president. I prefer the more conservative minded, rational, controlled and sensible leaders like Ronald Reagan and GWBush to lead America.

[savedbygrace]

To the average voter, this writer is saying that a medical doctor, former governor of Vermont, and a presidential candidate is clinically insane.

In a close reading of this article. I don't see where Murray is saying Dean is "clinically insane." Where did you find that?

I see where Moore writes that Murray is "alluding to possible schizophrenia," but I don't see where Murray actually makes that accusation. There's a ton of difference between being mentally unstable and being clonically insane. Don't you agree?

BTW, Murray's reference to single-mindedness is a Biblical reference, not a psychological one. (James 1:8, "A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.")

[cajungirl]

I agree with what you say, now how to we get the message out and when? That is the question to me. Privately we can all agree he is a major grandiose whack job but to get it out in a form that makes people agree is the issue.

[MissAmericanPie]

Dean is a complete nut job. This is of course obvious to everyone but liberal nut jobs. Bush is a shoe in, unless he blows it over amnesty. But if that is the case you can be sure the communist media will run all kinds of reasons for his defeat other than "It's the illegals stupid".

[cajungirl]

To bring up Jews, Cheney's daughter is the kind of thing that makes me wonder also,,is this article supposed to help us or hurt us. I am not dissing fundamentalists but that is the part of the conservative movement that mosts mobilizes up the left and the center part of the population. Plus Bush is getting Jewish supporters now. I keep thinking of Reagan's big tent, we need to keep it big.

[Reagan Man]

>>>... how to we get the message out and when?

For some, following PresBush`s low key lead will get the job done. Some of us will have to ratchet up the rhetoric to get the attention of the independent voters. Others, like Jimmy Moore, will go over the top to make their point.

I think its fair to say, short of getting down in the gutter and using trash talk as a first option, nothing is really out of bounds. Repeating the same anti-Dean slogans over and over, will also work to get the messge out. OTOH, for about 1/3RD of the electorate who consider themselves hardcore liberals and/or anti-Bush haters, nothing will work.

[Arizona]

It was the moment in the debate when he walked over to Bush in this intimidating strange way and Bush just looked at him.

This is one thing I do love about Bush - he just totally ignores the nutcases, he doesn't even attempt to reason with them nor does he hardly acknowledge that they even exist. He just quietly and steadily goes about his job and allows them to walk off the cliff themselves.

az

[Common Tator]

"You know, this over-the-top rhetoric from our side doesn't help. While I privately wonder about Dean, it is easier to say he is "temperamentally unsuited" to be president. That allegation is easier to prove and doesn't make us sound like wild-eyed fanatics."

Over the top rhetoric?

Yes, it is over the top rhetoric. You are as ignorant of what it takes to win an election as Howard Dean. Elections are won by getting more than half the centrist voters. And what was posted above is as over the top to the centrist voters as is the left calling Bush a gun toting international law breaking cowboy.

Saying what the base wants to hear in an election makes as much sense as Dean saying what the left wants to hear. You both do the same thing to opposite sides of the political spectrum.

I am sure that if Miss Marple ever wants to know how to lose and election by epic proportions, she will call on you... you are undoubtedly a great expert on how to get whipped at the polls by an inferior candidate.

If you are a typical Mason then Dixon must have drawn that line.

[Cicero]

Well, yes, Dean is a nut job. But after reading this article, I have to conclude that William J. Murray is a sanctimonious idiot.

This is the absolute WORST argument not to support Dean that could possibly be made. And on top of that, Murray holds the Republicans responsible for Dean. He even invites Christian conservatives to stay home for fear that if Bush is reelected, Cheney's lesbian daughter will get married to a lesbian partner in the White House! Good grief.

[Rome2000]

fear the possibility of a President Howard Dean.

ROTFLOL!!!!!

There's six weeks between election and inaugaration day.

Just eneough time to sell my house and move to the Bahamas.

[Reagan Man]

Dukakis and Dean. On the emotional scale, polar opposites of the first order. Dukakis always put me to sleep. At least Dean is entertaining. The fact remains, Bush will kick the crap out of Dean.LOL

[riri]

You know the point where al gore lost the election, when it became obvious he was unhinged?

Obviously not enough, because alot of people still walked to a booth a pulled the lever for him.

[tubavil]

Medved said it yesterday too.

[pixmo]

Mentally unstable? That's putting it mildly. ;-)

He'd legislate and tax us into oblivion if he had his way.

[Miss Marple]

I sometimes wonder if some of these "helpful" conservatives are really on the Rat payroll.

[Miss Marple]

Tator, I always apply the maxims you taught me when I am looking at political discourse.

As you said, this is appealing to the most radical of the base. It will send the middle people running for the hills. And we need those middle people's votes.

You said it much better than I could, but we are in 100% agreement on this article.

Thanks for the reply and explanation!

[Anticommie]

He is hot-tempered, arrogant, a liar, and willing to ditch any previously held position in order to get the nomination

Same 'qualities' our former impeached POTUS was blessed with.