Posted on 01/03/2004 5:22:15 PM PST by Rebelbase
Dr. Dean, I am appealing to you to give up your bid to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. The acrimony you have displayed, these past 11 months, do not represent the Howard Dean we once knew.
The recent polls may very well have you in the lead, and if you are to be the nominee in August it will bring disaster to your party. As a Republican, I have no interest in a one-party system of government, be it Republican or Democrat. When politicians win by overwhelming majorities, trouble is sure to follow. And at present, your comments have created a civil war within the Democratic Party - not unlike what you did in Vermont with Act 60.
Your whining and attacks on your fellow Democrats have blinded you from seeing as to what has occurred around you. For example, Saddam Hussein is gone from Iraq; Charles Taylor has been vanquished from Liberia; the Taliban is holed up in their caves in eastern Afghanistan; Col. Maummar el-Qaddafi of Libya has thrown in the towel, Iran has opened its nuclear programs for inspection, and reform-minded Gamel Mubarrak will soon take over for his ailing father, Hosni, in Egypt; and lastly, members of al Qaeda are being arrested in Turkey, Sudan, Yemen, and Iran. According to you, we still are not safe. Please!
These successes, for America and the world community, are being accomplished outside of the U.N., an organization you would be quick to surrender our sovereignty to. Furthermore, your willingness to reallocate our resources to national health care at a time when our very survival is at stake places your opinions at the far left of your party. You need to know that most Americans do not want their military to be on par with that of Portugal (where we were at the outbreak of W.W. II).
The responsibilities of the commander-in-chief are far greater than that of the governor of a state with 608,000 in population. When the national press begins to zero in on your record it is going to reveal how you decimated the state police by cutting back on their hours and their ranks. This occurred at the very time they were engaged in being Vermont's front line forces in our state's drug war, now the bane of our largest cities.
You continue to lecture us that the U.S. economy is in a shambles. Would you please get caught up as to what is happening? The tax cuts that you want to roll back are leading the economy out of recession. The GNP for the third quarter was at 8.2 percent, an increase not seen in 20 years. Productivity, employment, consumer confidence are all up and at the same time, inflation and interest rates are at all time lows. And as a former Wall Streeter you should know that the Dow Jones Index is up by 2,500 points since February 2002.
Dr. Dean, I don't believe that you are expending those millions of dollars for campaign ads and travel just to be the stalking horse for Hillary's bid to be president in 2008. Therefore, I have a suggestion for you. Not too long ago Dr. Ted Shattuck a Bennington and Rutland County physician wrote in the Bennington Banner that under your leadership, the Vermont's Medicaid population had gone from 30,000 to over 130,000. Dr. Shattuck stated that the medical profession needs help. Throughout the state there are only 348 family physicians and 373 internal medicine doctors.
The Bush Medicare legislation is now law and Vermont will reap millions from it. Maybe it is time for you to open a medical practice in southwestern Vermont and provide medical treatment for those patients you so willingly enrolled. It would be more productive than going around the country bashing the president and your fellow candidates.
Joseph Lieberman provided to you some sage advice - "If you cannot stand the heat of the primaries, you'll melt in a minute in the general election - Howard give it up and come home.
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Other than making the democRATs psychotic with rage, I don't recall any trouble arising as a result of Reagan's election massacre of Mondale.
Talk about asleep at the wheel.
Can't get more tired than that.
I think that's exactly the situation that the author is referring to, suggesting obliquely that Iran-Contra occurred because of the Reagan Administration's hubris after achieving such an overwhelming electoral victory.
Rubbish, of course, but that's how the Left thinks.
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