Dean Goes Mental

Dean Nearly Goes Mental In Debate

September 26, 2003


In the audio link below, you can hear Howard Dean MD come dangerously
close to "going mental," an event I've been predicting based on
watching the veins pop out of this guy's head lately. Thursday's
debate looked like Final Jeopardy, where they all write down their
answers and few are very bright. The camera panned from one candidate
to the next and I just couldn't take it seriously.

They all had to go through this, simply because Mrs. Clinton wasn't
there and will not declare her candidacy. Dean took after Dick
Gephardt for supporting means testing - the practice of making sure
you need help rather than forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for
billionaires who can pay their own way - for Social Security and
Medicare. Gephardt fired back by quoting Dean in 1993 saying that
Medicare "was the worst federal program ever."







Gephardt continued reaming Dean: "He also supported, at our darkest
hour, when I was leading the fight against Newt Gingrich and the
Contract with America - (Newt) was shutting the government down,
Howard. You were agreeing with the very plan that Newt Gingrich wanted
to pass, which was a $270 billion cut in Medicare.... This program has
been under attack from the Republicans since the beginning, and we
need a candidate against George Bush that can take the fight to him on
it, not someone who agreed with the Gingrich Republicans."

The near-mental Dean response: "That is flat out false, and I'm
ashamed that you would compare me with Newt Gingrich!" John French
Kerry, the richest man in the Senate with a $675 million dollar
fortune at last report, also drove Dean to near mentalism by
suggesting Dean would raise taxes by $3,000 on non-rich people. "We
can cut the deficit in half. We can be fiscally responsible," Kerry
said, "but we don't have to do it on the backs of the middle class."
Dean snapped about "Washington politicians promise people everything!"
Whoa! Dean's supporters want exactly that: the government to do
everything because they think we're all idiots - and they want you
thinking that too so we'll put them in power.

Finally, Dean lashed out at all of his rivals - except, of course,
General Wesley Clark who he apparently fears. "To listen to Senator
Lieberman, Senator Kerry, Representative Gephardt - I'm anti-Israel,
I'm anti-trade, I'm anti-Medicare and anti-Social Security. I wonder
how I ended up in the Democratic Party!" While not a meltdown
emotionally, that is closer to a meltdown and a mental moment than
anything we've heard yet. He's at the top of the field, except in the
press, where Wesley Clark has stolen Dean's "front-runner" title.
Howard is tired of taking it on the chin. A guy like him can only take
so much of this, folks. The mental blowout is coming, and it's going
to be a beauty.





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