Howard Dean (and an aside on Ward Churchill)

Howard Dean is an angry, little man. A very little man, indeed.

I'm thrilled that the leftists in the Democratic Party elected him as their chairman. He'll do wonders for the Republican Party's success in coming elections. Have the Dems gone mad?

Zell Miller may well prove to be a prophet, with his book A National Party No More.

The unprincipled rhetoric spewing forth from Dean lately- wait a minute...lately?!... this is all the man has!
In a fundraising trip to Lawrence Kansas on Friday, the DNC chairman resurrected the false threat so commonly feared by the paranoid Left, saying "I'm not going to have these right-wingers throw away our right to be tolerant". What the hell is he ranting about? This frequently-voiced fear of "rights" being lost or threatened (can you say Patriot Act?) when an opposing view is offered is downright delusional.

{**Another recent example is the hysteria of Ward Churchill defenders who cried "Free Speech!" when rational people were offended with his likening the victims of September 11 to Nazi war criminal and Holocaust architect Adolph Eichmann, and called for his ouster as a publicly paid professor at the University of Colorado. Losing one's job is not surrendering a right to free speech.
He could stand on a street corner and talk his fool head off, with no threat of government intrusion. He could write a letter-to-the-editor, operate a website, author a book, go on radio, take out newspaper ads, create a webcast, purchase billboard space, seek speaking engagements, parade up and down the sidewalk in a sandwich sign or hoisting a picket sign, drape himself in tee-shirts emblazened with his message, submit an article to Mother Jones magazine or some-such commie rag, paint a van or panel truck with his ideas and drive all over this free country, print his own newspaper or pamphlets, rent out a hall and advertise his appearance- hell, he could even try to sell tickets and make a buck or two, post signs in his yard, rent an airplane to fly banners all over the place, make a movie with Michael Moore, tatoo his message all over his non-Indian body and tour the beaches of America, even run for public office and dedicate his entire campaign to his America-hating propoganda---all without fear of censorship or government intervention or reprisal!**} back to Dean...

It got worse.
Using language that many Democrats found just oh-too-polarizing and judgemental when referrring to the bloodthirsty enemies of liberty who fly planes into buildings and saw people's heads off, Dean sized up the political contest between Republicans and his Democrats this way: "This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good." Somehow, Dean managed to locate a patch of feverswamp on the plains of Kansas. I guess that's not so hard to do when you bring it with you.
This is the same man who was unready to pass judgement on Osama Bin Laden until he's proven- in a proper court of law, no less- to be guilty of any actions against this country or our interests. He was uncomfortable with President Bush using the word "evil" to refer to our enemies, the sworn enemies of liberty who themselves make no bones about the fact that they despise democracy, and would stop at nothing to destroy us and our way of life. We can't call them evil, oh noooo. But Republcans? No problem.