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One Note Howie

You'd think it'd get tiresome, posting on Dean again and again.  But if he keeps throwing meatballs, we'll keep hitting dingers.

What's the vitriol du jour?  Well, since race has been such a winning topic for Dr. Dean lately, the obvious next contingent for him to loose his tactful sensibilities upon was black people.

Dean couthly reminded the world that African Americans are the rightful domain of the Democratic party:

"I think it's hypocritical for the Republicans to pretend to reach out to the African-American community unless they say they are going to reauthorize what gave the African-American community political power," Dean said in an interview.
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Dean said Republicans should not "pretend" to be genuinely interested in courting African-American voters until the party makes a clear statement on [the Voting Rights Act].

But how does a diplomat with such a sensitive ear for hypocrisy - particularly with regard to the proprieties of courting particular voting demographics - reconcile this statement...

"White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals on the back [read: a troublingly Republican voting bloc] ought to be voting with us, not [Republicans]."

with this one?

"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for." 

The answer, of course, is that Howard Dean concerns himself with neither consistency nor coherence.  At this point, it'd be all too easy just to write off his whole daffy gabfest once and for all.  But until a preponderance of the party's sapient leadership decides to acknowledge Dean's divergence, I feel justified in taking his rhetoric as de facto mainstream Democratic dogma.

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One Note Howie

You'd think it'd get tiresome, posting on Dean again and again.  But if he keeps throwing meatballs, we'll keep hitting dingers.

What's the vitriol du jour?  Well, since race has been such a winning topic for Dr. Dean lately, the obvious next contingent for him to loose his tactful sensibilities upon was black people.

Dean couthly reminded the world that African Americans are the rightful domain of the Democratic party:

"I think it's hypocritical for the Republicans to pretend to reach out to the African-American community unless they say they are going to reauthorize what gave the African-American community political power," Dean said in an interview.
...
Dean said Republicans should not "pretend" to be genuinely interested in courting African-American voters until the party makes a clear statement on [the Voting Rights Act].

But how does a diplomat with such a sensitive ear for hypocrisy - particularly with regard to the proprieties of courting particular voting demographics - reconcile this statement...

"White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals on the back [read: a troublingly Republican voting bloc] ought to be voting with us, not [Republicans]."

with this one?

"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for." 

The answer, of course, is that Howard Dean concerns himself with neither consistency nor coherence.  At this point, it'd be all too easy just to write off his whole daffy gabfest once and for all.  But until a preponderance of the party's sapient leadership decides to acknowledge Dean's divergence, I feel justified in taking his rhetoric as de facto mainstream Democratic dogma.