Go Howard! Finally someone speaks the truth!

[orleans]

anyone have his email so i can cheer him on?

(are any of these statements he made not true?)

"He has described the Republican leadership, in various venues, as "evil," "corrupt" and "brain-dead." He has called Sen. Rick Santorum, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, a "liar." He has referred to conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh as "drug-snorting.""

"Addressing the Massachusetts Democratic convention in Lowell, Dean declared: "I think DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence down there courtesy of the Texas taxpayers.""

(i think that was an op-ed piece by douche bag robert novak)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/19/howard.dean/

"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"

""Gov. Schwarzenegger has been a big disappointment to a lot of Californians ... Americans are tired of politicians that break their promise, especially in an area like education ... so I think there's going to be a lot of questions about whether the governor really cares about average Californians."

"I remember (former Republican Gov.) Pete Wilson ... got elected by victimizing immigrants. Republicans always divide people."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/07/MNdean07.TMP

[Carolab]

1. Yeah, SOME people actually GET what he's doing!

(Please click on the link below; this is an excellent post, and there are other good links within it.)

Why Howard Dean is good for the Democratic Party

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Dean governed Vermont as a moderate, but ran for President as a populist progressive - which tended to confuse me. But when his progressive message caused controversy and when the media pressure was on for him to abandon that message, he essentially stuck to his guns in trying to give voice to the progressive fight.

In doing so, of course, Democratic "centrists" viciously attacked him during the Presidential campaign (I put "centrists" in quotes because I think the term is a misnomer). And now, former GOP/Christian Coalition operatives like Marshall Wittman - who hilariously call themselves Democratic "centrists" and pretend to speak for Democrats - continue to underhandedly attack Dean even today. These "centrists" think they do themselves a favor with such disloyalty. But what they have actually done is unify a strong contingent of the Democratic base around Dean. For his part, Dean understands that these centrist elites will never be his base of support within the party (nor should a chairman want them to be). So he has a political incentive to stay on the populist progressive message as DNC Chairman. In other words, the grassroots and the progressive wing of the party have become crucial to his political career/survival - and that's who he is going to fight for. Say what you will about his transformation from governor to DNC Chairman, I'm glad he's on progressives' side.

Certainly, that is scary to the insulated Washington, D.C. Democratic establishment. For years, these insiders have been able to handpick chairmen to make sure the party doesn't move back to its grassroots, middle-class roots. That explains their anger at him, and their subsequent attacks.

<snip>
http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=4E3C8013-075E-2160-AF80AE6E8E674995

[orleans]

2. thanks for sirota's piece--it was good.

i clicked on the link about
"no excuse for high-profile Democrats to publicly attack him in the press as they have recently" and came up with this headline:

Richardson Distances Himself From Dean

(richardson. oh please. is my memory failing or did he stop the recount in new mexico and let the state go red? it was something like that that turned me from thinking richardson was okay to thinking he should just dry up and blow away)

i really haven't been paying too much attention to dean and this whole business--so tonight i see a few threads on it and i checked it out. i wanted to send him an email saying: Go Howard! and can't find an address.

[Tamyrlin79]

3. an address...

I think you can reach him at [e-mail]

I may be remembering it wrong, but I think that is right. If not, it was something really simple and straightforward like that.

[orleans]

4. thanks

i just went on the dnc website and sent a note through their email.