"Rolling in Minions"

Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CVI

Shawn Macomber takes a look at Howard "Cliff" Dean's campaign, and at the candidate, at The Spectator, Jan. 6:

.... Unlike the other candidates who seem to be in a constant makeover mode, Dean has not changed drastically since he began this campaign. The way he turns, the hand mannerisms, the voice inflection, the pause to signal tardy applause -- all of this remains the same as it was the first time I saw Dean speak in New Hampshire to a crowd of three people a year and a half ago. And for all the talk of "moving to the center" and taking Jesus on the campaign down South and Confederate flags, the message hasn't changed at all.

Everything is George W. Bush's fault. The recent mutual fund scandal is because Bush has failed to provide "moral leadership" to the country. Mad cow disease? That was G.W.B. Kids with asthma? G.W.B. If it's a problem on the front page of the paper, Dean will find a way to connect it to George W. Bush.

Dean supporters will talk your ear off about how he's a centrist, but Dean's Friday [Jan. 2] speech suggested otherwise. Government is the answer, always. Dean promised to institute a program to "keep dads interested in their kids," for example. Today's Republican Party makes "Ronald Reagan look like a left-winger." Confidently, Dean explained yet again, Saddam's capture "did not make us safer" and that "there is no war between the West and Islam." When a woman asked Dean what needed to be done to save Medicare, he said: "You have to stop voting for Republican presidents. Of course, you wouldn't do that. You wouldn't vote for a Republican."

But that's okay kids, because Daddy Dean is going to make all those nasty Republicans just disappear. "We're going to roll back the clock on the right-wing revolution of Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush," Dean said. Newt Gingrich? How did the forgotten bogeyman of Election '96 find his way into the 2004 campaign? With Howie Dean, evidently, there's always plenty of hate to go around.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 01/12/04 08:08:35 AM
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