Howard Dean talks straight

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Originally Posted by lookout123

well, as long as you want to be amused and feel like a big player - THE big player - as the head of the DNC flip off the republicans then Howard Dean is your man.

unfortunately, i'd rather see someone that could draw a majority of Americans back to the middle rather than help push them into greater polarity. don't you get it? very few people really like GWB and the gang, but A LOT are more uncomfortable with the Dean brand of Democrat.

Rush Limbaugh is a centrist?

Dean the presidential candidate has a liberal extremist image. However Dean is not really the issue. And the real issue is rarely mentioned. An ideological vacuum exists inside the Democratic party. They cannot even decide if the government should make America into a Chirstian nation or oppose it. They cannot even oppose the longer term undermining of the American economy that both George Sr and Clinton rebuilt. Democrats have nothing equivalent to the propaganda machine that feeds the Rush Limbaugh, et al with talking points every day. And Democrats have nothing equivalent to the Christian fundamentalists - who are even undermining the foundations of the Catholic Church.

These are powerful forces. As UT noted, Democrats would put Casey Jr up for PA senator. OK. Maybe this time he can prove to be politically effective. But what is his message? "We will not impose Christian fundamental morality on all other people?" What kind of message is that (and not I am not suggesting Casey even thought that position)?

The Democrats do not have many intellectual equivalents to Clinton or Rove. A problem Dean must address. Its not about the next four years. Its about the next 20 and 30 years. Neocon Republicans have defined the conquest (the saving) of America using Christian morality. Even moderate Republicans (McCain, Specter, or Snow) who have problems with that message have no alternative message or agenda. The problem is not Dean. Question will always come back to whether Christian fundamentalist morality must be imposed on all other Americans - and other conquered nations. Dean does not even discuss the issue. At least we have no reason to believe he has discussed the issues. But then Dean is no longer speaking on the campaign trail. Is he doing what a former Clinton Commerce Secretary did some 15 years ago? If so, then he is doing his job.