Dean: Not a Gore/Kerry/Bayh clone - A Citizen's Guide to Indiana

All the nattering nabobs agree that Dean’s bluntness ‘hurts the Democratic party’ (as if the D.C. cocktail circuit has the Democratic Party’s best interest at heart.) I see this report on Dr. Dean speaking in Chicago. He definitely doesn’t have that utterly bland vanilla quality that plagued pre-concession Gore and still plagues Kerry and Bayh. Some highlights from the good doctor:

“The chairman of the Republican Party has made a big deal out of attracting African-American voters. This is a litmus test. If you don’t support the extention of the Voting Rights Act, you don’t have the right to walk into a black church and show your face,” Dean said.

“My view is FOX News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don’t comment on FOX News,” Dean said. That was in response to vice president Dick Cheney calling Howard Dean “over the top” on Fox News on Sunday.

This passage from that article raised my eyebrows:

“They all behave the same, they all look the same, and they all — you know — it’s pretty much a white Christian party,” Dean said Wednesday.

“They’re not going to come to the Democratic party if the chairman of the Democratic Party is out there gratuitously characterized all Republicans in a truly nasty way,” said David Axelrod democratic strategist on Wednesday of last week.

I was unaware that having someone call you a white Christian was a “truly nasty” characterization. Why, some of my best friends are white Christians.

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