Dean’s on a Roll – a Sour Roll

Oh, good grief.

Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, unapologetic in the face of recent criticism that he has been too tough on his political opposition, said in San Francisco this week that Republicans are “a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It’s pretty much a white Christian party.”

“The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people,” Dean said Monday, responding to a question about diversity during a forum with minority leaders and journalists. “We’re more welcoming to different folks, because that’s the type of people we are. But that’s not enough. We do have to deliver on things: jobs and housing and business opportunities.”

This wasn’t just a case of him running off at the mouth, either, I don’t believe. Note the qualifier “pretty much” before that “white Christian party”. That’s a defense qualifier so that when Republicans rightly point out people like Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Michael Steele, and J.C watts he can say, “Well, sure. Those are the exceptions. Remember, I did say ‘pretty much’”. It’s a phrase that lets him smear the Republicans yet defend it semantically.

It takes some forethought to do tell that kind of lie and build in a defense your opponents can’t easily knock down.

And, as I pointed out yesterday with Senator Clinton, it’s not enough for Dean to disagree with the Republicans’ positions. He couldn’t simply say that they were less diverse or that they catered too little to minorities. He had to actually impugn their characters individually. He had to say, not that they believed the wrong thing, but that they were bad people. That’s what he meant by “that’s just the type of people we are”. he was saying that the Republicans are, by nature, not welcoming people – that they are innately exclusionary people. And exclusion, as we are all taught today, is a Very Bad Thing.

It’s also fairly amusing to note his whole “they think the same” routine. Remember, he became the DNC Chair after his operatives hounded Tim Roemer mercilessly for even daring to suggest that perhaps Democrats ought to be willing to talk to pro-life voters and consider their point of view or that Republican election success is because they actually have a “big tent”.

It’s an easy smear to make and an easier one to refute – kind of like refuting the crazy guy on the corner who says the sky is bright pink. You just have to look around and the truth just jumps right out at you.

I’m betting, though, that there are quite a few Democratic politicians today who would pay real money if Howard Dean would just shut up.

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Category: Moonbat Nonsense, The Quotable Howard Dean