As a conservative,let me say this...
Dean blew it when he said that the Dems shouldnt use the term "pro-choice".
They should use that term.Even though I personally am opposed to abortion,I am "pro-choice".I just want the choice to be for life,not death.
By saying that the dems shouldnt use the term,that suggests to me that the dems are NOT pro-choice.
And since the essence of CHOICE is having more then one option,it seems that Dean is saying that the Dem party wants to remove all options but one,therefore eliminating choice at all.
IMO,he screwed up with that statement.
But,since I am a conservative,I realize my opinion means nothing in this thread.
Quote:IMO,he screwed up with that statement.
But,since I am a conservative,I realize my opinion means nothing in this thread.
Conservative opinions ALWAYS mean something.
I may not always agree with your position but I'd always like to hear it. It's why I post here, and not at DU or DailyKos all the time; the variety of opinion leads to better discussion.
Cycloptichorn
Interesting day today.
Cokie Roberts spoke at my school, and made a funny comment about Dean and the Democrat party.
(She's actually a very tidy humorist.)
She said the more often people go to church, the more likely they are to vote Republican--2 to 1 for regular worshippers. The less often, the greater likelihood of being a Democrat--2 to 1 for people who never attend.
She says the Dems are currently doing so poorly nationally because they are the "party of the heathens." Just not good PR.
Then, she became a little more serious and pointed out how Hillary and Dean are trying to move right--and it comes off fake, and so now, they are alienating the True Left.
Of course, she uses much more agreeable rhetoric, but that's what it boiled down to.
She had some cute remarks about Strom Thurmond and that psycho from SC...Hollings.
She said the climate in Washington is the worst she's seen. She was likable.
Well, well, well. Now we see that
some people have no problem using Terri Schiavo for political gain, huh?
Quote:Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Friday that his party would wield the Terri Schiavo case against Republicans in the 2006 and 2008 elections, but for now needed to stay focused battling President Bush on Social Security.
"We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on," Dean said of the brain-damaged Floridian who died last month after her feeding tube was removed amid a swarm of political controversy.
Dean, who has called congressional intervention in the Schiavo case "political grandstanding," singled out House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) for his leading role in the matter.
"This is going to be an issue in 2006, and it's going to be an issue in 2008," Dean told about 200 people at a gay rights group's breakfast in West Hollywood, "because we're going to have an ad with a picture of Tom DeLay saying, 'Do you want this guy to decide whether you die or not? Or is that going to be up to your loved ones?' "
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-dean16apr16,1,3183716.story?coll=la-headlines-politics&ctrack=3&cset=true
So where's the fair and balanced media outrage over this obvious attempt to exploit and politicize a tragedy? Hmmmmm?
Dean may be a doc, but he's not too bright
I'm SURE of it.
<Seriously. Has anyone heard from PDid? He's been gone quite a while.>
Nope. I'm hoping he's really an accountant and that he'll re-appear after tax season. Otherwise, I'm gonna have to officially go into worry mode.
No, I think she's still got about two weeks.
ehbeth wrote:Nope. I'm hoping he's really an accountant and that he'll re-appear after tax season. Otherwise, I'm gonna have to officially go into worry mode.
I'm
not a beancounter. *snort*
Just busy. I'll be looking back in here when the deadline passes.
Anybody heard from Melissa/shewolf?
PDiddie wrote: Anybody heard from Melissa/shewolf?
She's around - mostly been postin' in the lighter topics though; been fairly active in the
A2K Election fun - she's shown up on several of those threads over the past few days.
phew, a pdiddie sighting
worry switch set on delay
DeLay probably appreciates it.
mmmmm yeah
read a stack of u.s. papers while i had way too much time to kill in the airport this morning
someone should be worrying about the poor fella
but i'll errrrrrr decline
Here we go:
On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 6:33 pm, I wrote:Lash wrote:Dean alienates an entire demographic within four months.
He completely reverses a previous position within three months.
...
For $100, Lash says (in another thread) we're on for the second one, above.
Clock is running.
Time's not quite up, as I thought.
I demand you to let Dean out of your basement!
More lunacy from Dean .....
Quote:Dean rips DeLay at convention
May 15, 2005
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Party, said yesterday that the US House majority leader, Tom DeLay, ''ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence," referring to allegations of unethical conduct against the Republican leader.
Dean's remark, in a speech to Massachusetts Democrats at their party convention, drew an immediate rebuke from US Representative Barney Frank, the Newton Democrat and one of DeLay's harshest critics. ''That's just wrong," Frank said in an interview on the convention floor. ''I think Howard Dean was out of line talking about DeLay. The man has not been indicted. I don't like him, I disagree with some of what he does, but I don't think you, in a political speech, talk about a man as a criminal or his jail sentence."
DeLay faces accusations he may have violated House rules by taking foreign trips paid for by lobbyists. In a separate case, a Texas grand jury indicted three fund-raisers with ties to DeLay on accusations of campaign-finance irregularities.
Dean, the former Vermont governor, lost his bid for the Democratic nomination to Senator John F. Kerry.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/15/dean_rips_delay_at_convention?mode=PF
Not sure how that qualifies as lunacy.
Lunacy as in "mental derangement." You know ... in the sense that a crazy person would think someone who has not been convicted of a crime should serve a jail sentence. Dean "the Scream" seems to be deranged, if you ask me.
