Wednesday, June 08, 2005

DEM’S HOWARD DEAN WON’T CHANGE HATE SPEECH MODE

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Though various ones within his own party have been chagrined by Dem National Committee Chairman Howard Dean’s hate speech continuance — some speech more muffled than others, but hate speech nevertheless — Dean stays on course.

Of course, that’s Dean’s personality. It’s what he is. He is just what we see. And there’s no behavior modification in the works for remodeling Howard Dean.

This is what the Dems are stuck with until they can him. How long will it take before Dems will can him? Only Dems know. And since Dems are not all that logical these days, as well as not being particularly efficient in politic maneuvering, it could be quite awhile until Dems send Dean to the exit — if ever.

Now when Dean calls the Republicans “’pretty monolith. . .They all behave the same. They all look the same. It’s pretty much a white Christian party,’” that in itself may be a compliment to white Americans and Christian voters. However, of course, that is not reality. The Republican Party is multi-faceted.

However, on the positive side of his comments, it is okay for the Republicans to have a powerful white presence. It is okay for that same party to have a powerful Christian presence and therefore whites and Christians don’t take umbrage at Dean’s remarks. He meant it for their harm; they take it for their good. Consequently, one more time Dean puts his Dem foot between his rattling teeth.

"’The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people,’ Dean said Monday, responding to a question about diversity during a forum with minority leaders and journalists. ‘We’re more welcoming to different folks, because that's the type of people we are. But that's not enough. We do have to deliver on things: jobs and housing and business opportunities.’"

If Dems were a more welcoming group, they would have won the November presidential elections plus. But they didn’t. So go figure where Dean slipped up on his logic quotient.

As for delivering on this and that, Dems can’t get their agenda in any reasonable order so as to attract anyone but their own entrenched liberal cultural lags. They simply don’t know how to deliver. They don’t know how to construct. They don’t have a program other than killing off womb babies, Judeo-Christian American heritage, masculinity, traditional marriage, the elderly, sexual morality, and religion.

According to Carla Marinucci, SFGate.com, Chronicle Political Writer, Dean’s comments last week that Republicans “‘never made an honest living in their lives,’ which he later clarified to say Republican ‘leaders,’ were disavowed by leading Democrats including Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.”

Increasingly, even some of the most vocal, controversial Dems are distancing themselves from their national chairman’s remarks. The distancing will continue for Dean will not change.

Again, it’s who he is. Yet the Dems asked for it. They set him up for this. They, after all, were the ones pawing him to take the job. He jumped at the chance. The Dems are now stuck in the mire. Yet again, they asked for it, which is another indication that the Dems really are not very well organized, let alone that savvy.

"’Where do I sign up on a committee to keep Howard Dean?’ crowed GOP operative Jon Fleischmann, publisher of the FlashReport, a daily roundup of California political news and commentary. ‘He's the best thing to happen to the GOP in ages.’"

And that’s just the point. Dean has made hate speech an art form for the Dems which in turn has made the art form an obscenity markdown to other-than-Dems, particularly those within the more respectable Republican Party.

"’I'm thrilled he's the DNC chair,’ says Tom Del Becarro, chairman of the Contra Costa County Republican Party. ‘Howard Dean is scaring away the middle. People don't like angry people. They like hopeful people.’''

Back to truth: the Republican Party is diverse in its loyal adherents. As Simi Valley Councilman Glenn Becerra pointed out, US President George W. Bush, for example, “’didn’t get 40 percent of the Hispanic vote because we’re a monolithic, white Christian party.’”

Therefore, all that the reasonable, patriotic, truly American voters can say to Dean’s continuance of mouth disease is this: Carry on, Dem leader par excellence. Carry on.