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Howard Dean: Republicans 'Authoritarian People Who Fundamentally Don't Believe in Democracy'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/15/2014 6:46:43 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Latest dispatch from the "dissent is patriotic" is dead front: Howard Dean has accused people who don't share his political views of being "authoritarian people who fundamentally don't believe in democracy."

Poor Howard, who declared the times to be very "frightening and disconcerting," made his astounding accusation on today's Up With Steve Kornacki while attempting to explain the Republican sweep on the statehouse level.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: authoritarianism; california; democracy; howarddean; jonathangruber; nancypelosi; obamacare; republicans; vermont
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s called “projection”, Howard.


21 posted on 11/15/2014 6:54:31 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You gotta love the projecting. Every day they tell their secrets by saying that conservatives do them - lie, don’t believe in democracy, hate America, hate blacks. Whatever it is they say, THEY do it. Classic projection.


22 posted on 11/15/2014 6:55:41 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Have not met a Democrat in a long time that understands the difference between a Representative Constitutional Republic and a Democracy.

It’s pathetic. A complete failure.

I wish that people would begin to mock them for it.


23 posted on 11/15/2014 6:56:17 AM PST by Noamie
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I believe Howie is right about the 3rd party and I predict they will be called the ‘Cruzers’


24 posted on 11/15/2014 6:56:57 AM PST by CMailBag
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Is this a lefthanded way of walking back his recent gem about ‘rats not understanding the voters?

OTOH...If neither party, per “Warwhoop” Dean knows what’s right, I guess that leaves him, alone as the one who DOES.


25 posted on 11/15/2014 6:56:58 AM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Stupid America haters that don’t understand what a REPUBLIC is. They cannot grasp that a democratic republic is not a democracy. Or rather they will not acknowledge such.


26 posted on 11/15/2014 6:59:17 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hey Howard,

Pure, majority-rules democracy is two wolves and one sheep deciding on what to have for dinner. Great for the wolves, not so great for the sheep.


27 posted on 11/15/2014 6:59:49 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Noamie

“The Democrats are the party of fascism, intolerance, and bigotry.”

AMEN

The DEMOCRAT BRAND as defined above needs to be attacked over and over again. Ruin it!!!!!


28 posted on 11/15/2014 6:59:49 AM PST by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Go home Dean. You’re drunk. Again.


29 posted on 11/15/2014 7:00:56 AM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Mouton

What we have here is a Constitutional Republic....if we can hold onto it.....per Benjamin Franklin.


30 posted on 11/15/2014 7:01:05 AM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: LeonardFMason

Dean has the HItler comb over


31 posted on 11/15/2014 7:01:12 AM PST by gwgn02
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"authoritarian people who fundamentally don't believe in democracy."

Yee Hah! We DO believe in representative government, not a democracy mob, but a representative REPUBLIC.

32 posted on 11/15/2014 7:02:41 AM PST by Rapscallion (Americans are led by a vindictive snot. He is here to destroy the good America.)
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To: Noamie

I agree. Most “democracies” are nothing but out of control mobs pushing total chaos. This is why I hate “propositions” on ballots. That is NOT how a republic supposed to work.


33 posted on 11/15/2014 7:03:02 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Provisional ballots'. When legal votes just aren't getting the job done. - The DemocRATS.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
There is a time to be inflexible and a time to not be. It all depends on your ability to wisely discern between truth and error, right and wrong, good and evil, etc. Some things are gray and flexibility is wise to consider. But that is not true of everything.
True. That takes maturity and maturity only comes with time and experience and can't be hurried along.

Dean is a radical and unwise thinker who wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him in the bum.
I assume you are saying that he was always this way. Always a Democrat and therefore always of an ilk. Thanks for you response.

Folks from other countries rarely see any difference between our parties but generally dislike the GOP because they are socialists. They fail to see how much our government has encroached on our private and public lives and how socialist our governments, federal, state and local have become.

34 posted on 11/15/2014 7:04:28 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Neither did the Founders of the REPUBLIC that the USA was supposed to be.

When the freeloaders started electing our leaders, the nation started its downward slide.


35 posted on 11/15/2014 7:06:51 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Funny, according to the nifty little political quiz I took the other day, I scored in the negatives for authoritarianism but taking the quiz and answering how a liberal would, the authoritarianism factor was high. Hmmmmmm......
36 posted on 11/15/2014 7:08:17 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I think the signal that his mind was blowing was when, on his own campaign trail, he let out that warwhoop. To me, that was akin to the popping off of the pressure relief valve on a steam boiler. Poor ol’ H’ard Dean; his blown mind is flapping and flopping like a blown tire on a Sprint Cup race car.


37 posted on 11/15/2014 7:08:47 AM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

> It depends on what your idea of democracy is. In the case of Democrats, it’s an all-powerful government capable of taking everything others have to give them everything they want.

Bingo! and great answer...: )


38 posted on 11/15/2014 7:10:33 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Tucker39

LOL! Thanks for the laugh.


39 posted on 11/15/2014 7:10:39 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: cloudmountain

You know, it is funny how people in other countries say they do not like us and yet if given the chance, many of those same people would move here in a second.


40 posted on 11/15/2014 7:12:56 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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