Friday, May 20, 2005

DEAN UPROARS HIS HATE SPEECH RHETORIC

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Democratic National Party Chairman Howard Dean upped his hate speech - typical, expected, inflammatory, damaging. But does he care? Not a twit. Not.

Therefore, when Dean gave forth with speeches recently around the country, he hit hard. There was no wiggle room for respectability. With such harangues, the Dems continue to bury themselves. Individuals who like to play fair - even in politics - are repulsed by such cheap mouthing.

However, when you're a Howard Dean, all that madness comes innately. It's part of his persona. He was born with it, in other words. Therefore, the Dems, knowing what they were getting when they made him Chairman, are getting just what they deserve - nothing constructive, all destructive.

Instead of rationally formulating concepts and programs that do the nation's business well, Dean slaps and slams. American could never work daily from the White House in such backward diatribe mode.

Yet with all the warnings the Dems have been handed from various quarters, they continue to continue on the downward path, Dean hosting the way.

Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY, calls it "his trademark red-meat rhetoric." Dean calls Republicans "corrupt," "brain-dead," "mean."

He said, "'They are not nice people.'" That was broadcast in a radio talkabout on Air American Minnesota, according to the political newsletter Hotline.

According to USA TODAY, "Last weekend he said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, whose associates are under investigation but who has not been charged with anything, should go home to Houston to 'serve his jail sentence' at Texas expense.

"At the same time, Dean tells Democrats they need to 'respect people in all 50 states' and try to win them over. 'We need to talk to people from our hearts,' he told California Democrats."

It seems to me that the Dems, led by Dean, are doing just that. But what can you say to America in red-white-and-blue when your heart is black with soot?