Over on the Right, we’ve understood for quite some time that Howard Dean’s hate-filled rhetoric is detremental to the health of the Democratic party. Now it looks like some on the Left are finally starting to realize it too.
Dean “doesn’t speak for me with that kind of rhetoric and I don’t think he speaks for the majority of Democrats,” Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
While discussing the hardship of working Americans standing in long lines to vote, Dean said Thursday, “Republicans, I guess, can do that because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives.”
Really? Is that what he believes?
I have pointed out several times here how I’m always a bit dismayed at the number of Left-wing protests (are there any other kind?) that take place in the middle of the work day, and how well attended they are. I’ve always argued that you almost never see a group of Republicans out protesting something in the middle of the day because…well…we’re at work.
And what do you know about working hard to make an honest living, Mr. Dean? Sure, at one point in your life you were a physician, and you undoubtably knew a thing or two about an honest living (although, I’d still contend that you don’t know a damned thing about a hard days labor in exchange for a fair and honest wage).
But since 1983, when you were elected as a State Representative, you have done nothing but live off the tax payer’s tit. Being a career politican does not give you the firmest of grounds to lecture me, or anyone else, on the values of making an honest living.
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I think Dean is generally ignored by the average Republican voter. I, for one, dismiss him and his accusations as unsophisticated and downright silly at times. I would expect the average Democrat voter doesn’t think too much of him either. The people he probably really scares are the Democrat politicians who are relying on him to rebuild the party. Need I say anymore.
_”I’ve always argued that you almost never see a group of Republicans out protesting something in the middle of the day because…well…we’re at work”_
Once again I’ll say this is a nonesense theory. People take time to do things they care about. Liberals care about the ability of government to solve problems in our communities.
_”But since 1983, when you were elected as a State Representative, you have done nothing but live off the tax payer’s tit.”_
You’re wrong- Dean practiced medicine until 1991 when he was elected Lt. Gov.
According to this site, Dean served as Lt. Gov from 1987-1991; he was elected Gov in 1991. He was a State Rep from 1983 to 1987.
So in addition to being a State Rep and Lt Gov, he also practiced medicine from 1983 to 1991?
And I stand by my theory on liberal protestors. I’ve seen way too many protests that had ZERO to do with the desire for “government to solve problems in our communites”. Most protests that I have witnessed (and we’re talking first-hand accounts of hundreds of protests at the Capitol Building here in Austin) are of the “we hate war, we hate the president, we hate the police, we hate the death penatly, or we hate abortion laws ” variety.
In other words, a lot more hate than actual concern for “solving problems in our communities”.
Besides, most Republican’s don’t think it’s the place of government to be solving most of the problems in our communities.
When ‘break-away’ protests (like the one I wrote about here block downtown traffic, thus preventing people from getting to their jobs or preventing police, fire fighters, or EMS personnel from doing their jobs…how is this solving a community problem? (Answer: it doesn’t. It creates problems in the community though.). How does a protest that results in the vandalism of a US Army recruiting station “solve a problem in our community”?
Do you know the best and most effective form of protest? Elections. That’s right…the best way to affect change in government is to vote for those who would implement your ideas. Standing on the sidewalk with signs, trying to sway a majority of people over to your minority views, is probably the least effective method.
Vermont has a part time Legislature.
“Vermont’s part-time citizen Legislature, a body whose members convene four days a week for about five months a year in Montpelier to thrash out laws while continuing their lives as parents, business owners, farmers, lawyers and neighbors.”
“Do you know the best and most effective form of protest? Elections.”
I agree.
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