LET DEAN BE MEAN!!

[Pryderi]

Let Dean Be Mean


Leading Democrats, including John Edwards, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Dianne Feinstein, have felt it necessary in the last week to distance themselves from Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean. True, Dean has spoken bluntly, as is his wont, about Republicans, particularly the Republican party leadership. One wonders though where these upright Democrats find the time and energy to publicly criticize one of their own during such trying times.

Further evidence, as if any more was needed, has emerged establishing that the war in Iraq was sold under false pretenses, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

A major news magazine has been discredited to divert attention from confirmed instances of Koran desecration in Guantanamo Bay prison, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

Bush has nominated for our new U.N. Ambassador an individual who virulently opposes the very existence of the United Nations, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

Osama bin Laden is still at large, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

Ideologically extreme judicial nominees are being rammed through the Senate on the heels of a "compromise" meant to prevent Republicans from dismantling the rule of law in the legislative branch, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

Social Security is in grave danger even while major corporations are pushing the burden of worker pensions and health care onto taxpayers, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

Global warming is being ignored, evolution is being attacked, and embryonic stem cell research is being banned, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

The mainstream media has surrendered investigative journalism and integrity for tabloid reporting and the illusion of balance, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

The nation struggles under crushing gas prices thanks to an ineffective energy policy designed by the very oil, coal, and natural gas companies it enriches, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

Republicans are successfully conducting class warfare through the tax code, providing ludicrous cuts to the most wealthy Americans at the expense of the lower and middle class, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

Liars, crooks, and worse run amok in our government, but Democrats are speaking out against Dean.

Get your priorities straight, people. Stop pretending that there's a middle in U.S. politics anymore. The foxes are running the henhouse, yet you can't find anything more constructive to do than attack one of your own. If you're not willing to help our country out of this insanity, at least try not to destroy those courageous enough to try.


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[Triana]

1. PLEASE SEND THIS TO:

John Edwards, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Dianne Feinstein

THEY need to read this!

[Cha]

8. You are so right on about

this and anyone on DU who buys into that crap that the dlcer types are spouting out.

[pansypoo53219]

2. on the other hand

this makes him look like an outsider and not part of the DC establishment.
and i am thinking that could be a good thing eh?

[Kenneth ken]

3. yeah, but only if

Dems rally around him in the not-too-distant future. Otherwise, a voter can look at Dean, like what he says, and then look at the Dems speaking out against him, and say, well, if I coud vote for Dean, that would be good, but why should I vote for these other Dems who disagree with him; they must disagree with me too?

Dems don't necessarily have to bind themselves to Dean, but they sure as heck need to be talkng about real problems, and working on real solutions, instead of criticising the most vocal Dem. Supporting Dean would be very nice though, since he is saying what needs to be said.

[liberalpress]

12. I think what we are seeing here is sheer genius.

We are actually witnessing the re-inventing of the Democratic Party. In the end it doesn't matter what the "party faithful" believe. It has never mattered what the republicans believe. In the end, all that matters is what the people believe. If Howard Dean says it, the right wing decries it and the left wing denies it... the message gets repeated three times. That is called using their media to get out our message. That means the people will hear it. They just need to hear it enough.

[Larkspur]

4. Amen!!

Excellent opinion.

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[Pryderi]

11. Oops. Sorry. I'll remember from now on. Thanks for the "heads up"

[MODemocrat]

6. I'm disappointed in the "fabulous four" and others

You can't be nice and expect to get ahead of the republicans. How nice are they to you? Football games are not won by being nice. Howard Dean is not afraid of anyone, and I love him for speaking out. Go Mr. Tough Guy, you're the man!!

[Cha]

7. YOWZERS! Does this put the

whole "Dean is Mean"..in perspective!

My undying gratitude to you Pryderi for giving us this 10,000 birdsblog!!

How ever did you find it and of all places to tell it so eloquently how it IS!

[Pryderi]

10. I heard Mike Malloy mention it on his show the other night.

[deacon2]

9. Dead on. n/t