Leading With His Lip(Dean, the best thing to happen to the GOP since Bubba.)

Los Angeles Times ^ | June 12, 2005 | editorial

[kellynla]

Howard Dean has become the Russell Crowe of the Democratic Party. But unlike Crowe, who has been profusely apologizing for beaning a hotel concierge with a telephone in a fit of bad temper, Dean shows no signs of contrition for the intemperate rhetorical blasts that he sent flying in the direction of the GOP last week.

Dean presents a conundrum for embattled Democrats, who have lost control of the White House and Congress. There are two ways for them to think about him. One is that he's a reckless, emotional politician whose fiery remarks will stir up debate and help the Democratic Party. The other is that he's a reckless, emotional politician whose name-calling cheapens the national debate on issues and hurts his own party.

Judging by Dean's preposterous comments about all Republicans being rich and idle, and mostly white Christians to boot, the latter is inescapably the case. You can't be a good salesman if you spend your time insulting prospective customers, in this case people who haven't been voting Democratic.

[kellynla]

"So far, Dean has done a good job of pulling the party together — the Republican Party." Dean is the best thing to happen to the GOP since Bubba Clinton. I wonder if the weasel Kinsley wrote this piece?

[sodpoodle]

Remembering Mayberry - Barney Fife on the subject of Ernest T. Bass.

Barney to Andy; "He's a nut."

RIP Ernest T.

sp

[mainepatsfan]

I wonder what he'll have to say in order to get a similar editorial written in the NY Times?

[Brilliant]

I've said it before and I will say it again... Dean might be the best thing for the GOP in years, but constantly gloating about it is not becoming and does not help our cause.

The best thing to do is to chastize him.

[JulieRNR21]

End of Article Quote:

So far, Dean has done a good job of pulling the party together — the Republican Party. His counterproductive message is a problem for the Democratic Party. And the fact that the opposition party is in too much disarray to seriously engage the issues is a problem for our democracy. We'd be equally concerned if it were the Republicans who'd turned to their own version of a Howard Dean for leadership.


Baloney...the LA Times & the MSM would be overjoyed if the RNC Chair had made all the gaffs that Dean has!

[Bullish]

Dean's in big trouble with the democrat party when the LA Times liberals start blasting him.

[Libloather]

Howard Dean has become the Russell Crowe of the Democratic Party.

The Glad-he-met-her...

[Loyal Buckeye]

Ho-weird.

[kellynla]

chastise him?
I want to buy him dinner!! LOL
do you have any idea what this clown is doing...
any person with the IQ of a fence post and not a card carrying member of the hard Left is looking at Dean and saying "and I want anything to do with this maniac?" "I don't think sooooo" Just look at the GOP war chest compared to the 'Rats? All this idiot needs is a Hitler mustache and his hair combed down on his forehead. Dean is a blabbering buffoon, plain & simple.

like Dan Blather and Chief Churchill, the more they talk the better the GOP and conservatives look!

[kellynla]

the NYT will probably write the obituary...
I mean, by the time the NYT gets around to criticizing this clown, he'll be out on his ear...

[mainepatsfan]

True. They don't tell Dems that they're running a lousy campaign until after they've lost.

[kellynla]

"We'd be equally concerned if it were the Republicans who'd turned to their own version of a Howard Dean for leadership."

I agree with you...
John Carroll, Kinsley and the whole LAT would be writing scathing editorials daily if the GOP had a clown like Dean making accusations of the 'Rats like he has made of the GOP.

[Brilliant]

Sure. He's an idiot, but gloating about the fact that he's helping our party is the wrong response. Makes us look like smartasses.

The best response it to express outrage at his remarks. Demonize him.

[CyberAnt]

Rush said that the dems will not officially stop Dean .. because in reality - Dean is saying what the dems really believe about repubs.

While some of the dems may pretend they don't agree with what Dean's saying .. in reality they do agree. But .. since the dems don't operate in reality very often .. I'm sure it's a shock for the dems to actually hear in public what they say about us in private.

[kellynla]

well of course we're going to express our outrage in public while we gloat in private...
and we are "smart-asses"
would you rather we were "dumb-asses?" LOL

[Brilliant]

We're not gloating in private, though. We're gloating in public.

[freeangel]

This is all part of the dem strategy. Dean will be in until hillary announces her run. Then he will be pulled to make hillary seem like a centrist.

[R.W.Ratikal]

There you go again overestimating the political savvy of the American people. A lot of people, about half, believe everything the Demosocialists say.

True, Dean seems to be shooting himself in the a$$. But never forget there is a large constituency that cheers Dean. While some of them might not like his methods they still support the socialist agenda and will continue to do so no matter who their spokesman of the moment might be.

The Democrat Party began to become unraveled when Jimmah Cahwhatah was president. It has crashed but it has not yet burned.

Loyal Dem supporters can take it. They hung on through two terms of Clinton and gave Gore and Kerry their support. Never underestimate what that great propagandist Adolph Hitler said, "Tell a really big enough lie repeatedly and people will believe you."

[marty60]

Sit up debate? HA. What is the debate, "Is screamin Deanie insane or not?"

[JAWs]

Howard Dean has become the Russell Crowe of the Democratic Party.

At least Crowe, a box office draw, brings in lots of money for his employers. Dean can't seem to get cash from anyone besides the limousine liberals.