"Dean Spares No Opponent;" Even as he Deplores attacks on him.

[Raya]

Howard Dean is an amazing hypocrite. From early in the campaign he has been cutting up his opponents with vicious slams. Once he had denigrated this main opponents HE DECLARES THAT ALL ATTACKS ON HIM FROM DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL AND DISGUSTING. At the same time he is using his Internet war-chest to target massively vicious attack mailings against his rivals in IOWA.

I find it all very corrupt. No matter how smart Dean is, he does not deserve the nomination.

http://www.sover.net/~auc/backup/15dean.html


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October 15, 2003, Wednesday
NATIONAL DESK

Dean Spares No Opponent As He Sprints Across Iowa

By JODI WILGOREN (NYT) 661 words
MONTROSE, Iowa, Oct. 14 -- Howard Dean, who is increasingly giving his presidential candidacy an anti-Washington cast, cranked up his rhetoric on Tuesday, saying that if he won, members of Congress were ''going to be scurrying for shelter, just like a giant flashlight on a bunch of cockroaches.''

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The remark was one of dozens of sharp comments about ''Washington politicians'' that Dr. Dean, the former governor of Vermont, tossed out in a 15-hour, nine-city, 329-mile sprint across Iowa, as he intensified his effort to separate himself from the pack by claiming the ''outsider'' mantle.

Trotting out a new laugh line, he criticized his fellow Democrats as compromising on party principles, saying, ''Harry Truman said if you run a Republican against a Republican, a Republican wins every time.''

Dr. Dean was not shy about criticizing his opponents, particularly Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, who has emerged as his chief rival in Iowa, which holds the first caucuses in the Democratic contest. ''Many of the people who are running for president left their constituencies a long time ago,'' he told reporters.

Specifically mentioning Mr. Gephardt's appearance with President Bush in the Rose Garden last fall in support of the Congressional resolution authorizing force in Iraq, Dr. Dean said, ''He hung his own people out to dry.''

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As he sped east across Iowa from Council Bluffs on Monday night to an Oktoberfest in tiny Montrose on Tuesday, Dr. Dean was blunt in his attacks. For example, he denounced his opponents as spending a collective 67 years in Washington without providing a prescription drug benefit to elderly people.

''These guys have been in Washington talking for all those years, and what do you have to show for it?'' he asked 150 elderly people in Council Bluffs. ''When I am president, we're going to have prescription drugs instead of hot air in Washington.''

The theme of cleaning up a poisoned Washington climate has been a staple of Dr. Dean's campaign from the beginning, but in recent days he has been more pointed, as General Clark, who has never before run for public office, threatens to displace him as the outsider. His comments have also racheted up as some of his Washington-based opponents have stepped up their own attacks on him.

At the Junction Cafe in Bedford, where students from a high school government class joined local Democratic Party loyalists, Dr. Dean said: ''We need to clean house in Washington. That's what this campaign is about.''

At lunchtime in Mount Ayr, he responded to a question about whether he had a bad temper by saying, ''The problem is, everybody gets along and goes along in Washington, and nothing ever happens.''

[poskonig]

1. Tom Delay *is* a cockroach.

They better damn well scurry when Dean takes office.

I agree with Harry Truman too, regardless of who is running.

[HFishbine]

2. Straight Talk

I love it!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. You are entitled to your opinion

Frankly, I agree with Dean that the same old same old that has been happening in Washington for too long has to stop. I don't know who you support for President, but if he/she wins the nomination, know that I will support that person. I hope that, despite your misgivings about Dean, that you will support him if he gets the nomination.

The point is to get Bush out of the White House.

[Egnever]

4. All legitimate beefs

Whats the problem?

Please quote the legitimate beefs Dean is complaining about.

[oasis]

5. "Clean house in Washington.That's what this campaign is all about"

But I thought George Bush was the enemy.

Is Dr. Dean running against Bush or is he running against the "Democratic Party establishment"?

[mistertrickster]

6. Now we know what Raya thinks, to hell with 500,000 Dean backers.

Last time I checked, the messiah had not returned to earth. That means we only have ordinary people to work with.

JFK was a hypocrite about Civil Rights--he only acted when SNCC and James Meredith forced the issue. Truman helped spawn the "red scare" for his own purposes, and that rapidly spiraled out of control.

Look, if you want perfection, go to heaven. If you want to stop Bush, get behind the only grass-roots campaign that is working--support Dean.

[Raya]

7. Not Perfection, Some Intergrity, Please. Dean is USING US like Bush

used the religous right against McCain.

Shouldn't it turn our stomachs

[Padraig18]

8. That's massive hyperbole.

None of the facts justify a blanket statement like that, Raya. It's the primary season... :eyes:

[LizW]

9. Please provide links

to support this:

"(Dean) DECLARES THAT ALL ATTACKS ON HIM FROM DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL AND DISGUSTING."

and this:

"...he is using his Internet war-chest to target massively vicious attack mailings against his rivals in IOWA."

Otherwise admit that you're just making stuff up.

Thanks.

And by the way, your subject line is misleading. The "Dean Spares No Opponent" piece is from October 14 (it's clearly dated), yet you attempt to make it appear recent.

[Padraig18]

10. Proof *would* be nice.

Don't hold your breath waiting for it, though, unless you look good cyanotic...

[LizW]

11. Me:

:crazy: (waiting......)

[Moderator]

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