Posted on 06/22/2005 2:58:18 PM PDT by NewMediaFan
WASHINGTON -- Buck up, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. You're on the right track. Noisy is good. Mean is even better.
The Republicans can ridicule you all they want. It only means you have their attention and they are worried. The lame-duck blues are upon them. And they need a taste of their own medicine.
The Democratic congressional leadership, as usual nervous about Dean's outspoken habit, cravenly criticized Dean for recent incendiary anti-GOP comments and urged him to tone it down.
But there's a reason the Democrats are in the minority everywhere in the federal government -- too much timidity in the face of controversy. Grow a spine, fellows. When the Republicans push, promptly push back. Good manners never won an election.
Dean knows this and understands that it is his role as party chairman to energize the troops. This is not a game for wimps. We can't be Bush Lite, he warns.
But his troops fret that he may be insulting the potential recruits they need to expand the party's reach, particularly in the conservative red states.
Republicans pounced on his latest comment that "Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people. They're a pretty monolithic party. Pretty much -- they all behave the same, they all look the same and they all ... it's pretty much a white Christian party." Naturally, the GOP pretends to be offended, because party officials are making a big deal of wooing minorities and ethnic groups they have previously failed to attract.
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Yet Dean is merely doing what comes naturally. "The Republican attack machine goes after anybody, and they've said far worse things about many, many of our people," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., observed. Words to which Dean can subscribe. No exaggeration there.
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This is great! Dean is the gift that keeps on giving.
"The Republican attack machine goes after anybody, and they've said far worse things about many, many of our people," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., observed.
Gimmee one example, Chucky!
(GEEZ, what a POS!
The Republican attack machine? I thought it was the Democrats who were attacking. After all, they say Bush is Hitler, Republicans are Nazis, Gitmo is the Gulag, etc.
Noisy is good. Mean is even better.
This rhetorical garbage is shameful, but shame seems out of fashion on Capitol Hill these days. Anything goes; the nastier the better.
This is hard to follow, but I'm trying. She's saying that "mean" rhetoric is great, but "nasty" rhetoric is shameful. Do I have that right? Man, you sure have to be nuanced to be a lib.
That's not an attack -- that's "speaking truth to power." Or something like that.
That a girl MARIANNE. Keep it up. We need Dean right where he is... you betcha!
Nor have they ever been a democrat trait. Notice how the common rhetoric with democrat politicians is they're going to fight for this or that. Course, ironically, when it's time to really fight for something, they turn pacifist on us.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
We predicted on FR back in November '04 that Dean would make a hilarious DNC chairman. We were not disappointed.
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