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Old 06-29-2005, 07:08 PM
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by Keith Boykin
June 20, 2005


"Howard Dean, the Democratic Party chairman, was right on the money when he said recently that the GOP is "not very friendly to different kinds of people," and he was right when he said the Republicans are "pretty much a white, Christian party."

This is the party that wants to end affirmative action, outlaw abortion, put prayer in public schools, post the 10 Commandments in court houses and amend the Constitution to discriminate against gays. Of course they're a white, Christian party.

So what's all the fuss about?

Dean's error was strategic, not substantive. In politics, you never attack your enemies when they're making a mistake, and Dean's attack diverted attention from the Republicans' numerous mistakes.

With support for the failed Iraq war dropping dramatically and Bush's Social Security privatization plan ready to be jettisoned, the president's poll numbers have reached an all-time low, and Republicans have been searching for a way out. Then came Howard Dean.

Dean's comments allowed the Republicans to make him the issue instead of the policies of the party in power. "We gotta get ourselves beyond this point where when we disagree about politics, we call the other guy names," responded the disingenuously civil GOP Party Chairman Ken Mehlman. Without a hint of irony, the leader of the party that gave us Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Lee Atwater, Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey and Tom "The Hammer" DeLay was now complaining about politeness in politics.

The Republicans get away with their hypocrisy only because the pathetically feeble Democrats won't stand up and challenge the GOP. The Democrats still haven't learned how to be an opposition party. When Republicans take a position, they stick to it with remarkable discipline and repeat it ad nauseum until the media reports it and we believe it. They have slandered and smeared their opponents -- from Dukakis to Kerry -- with hot-button lies and distortions. Remember the Dukakis "Pledge of Allegiance" controversy, the Kerry Swift Boat attacks and the meandering Clinton Whitewater investigation.

The Democrats, on the other hand, step forward timidly and then retreat as soon as they encounter even a tiny bit of resistance. Joe Biden, Joe Lieberman, Bill Richardson, Mark Warner and Nancy Pelosi all left Dr. Dean hanging when asked to respond to his remarks. But that's exactly why Howard Dean's hard-edged approach resonates with many disenchanted Democrats. "The one thing that we have to do in the Democratic Party is to stop being afraid of being different from the Republicans and stand up for what we believe in," Dean said recently.

He's right. Somebody needs to speak out repeatedly and forcefully against the gross mismanagement, unbridled corruption and criminal abuse of power in Washington. If the Democrats don't do it, they don't deserve to be elected.

Instead of getting outraged about Howard Dean, we should get outraged about the things that outraged him -- the GOP's widespread mismanagement, greed, corruption and rampant abuse of power. Would the real Democratic Party please stand up?"

Keith Boykin is a former special assistant to President Clinton, Harvard Law School graduate, popular lecturer and New York Times best-selling author of three books. He writes daily commentary on his Web site, www.keithboykin.com.
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Old 07-01-2005, 06:24 AM
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So Keith Boykin has his panties wadded up in a knot, (1) either how other people of perceiving Screamin' Howard, (2) that other people has different moral values than he or other whining liberals do, or (3) that other people are turned off by Screamin' Howard's antics.

Shall we remind Boykin how pro-life people are/were shunned by his party of bigots? Shall we remind him that it was his party that filibustered civil rights legislation? Shall we remind him that it was the Democrats in the US Senate that prohibited voting on a bill that would have made lynching a federal crime? For three times? And shall we remind him that his socialist hero, FDR, didn't have the cajones to pressure the Democrat senators to vote for the bill, even though his wife, the ever beautiful Eleanor, pushed him to pass the bill?

And why has the Presiden'ts poll ratings vis-a-vis Iraq dropped, if indeed they have? Could it possible be because of the constant publication of slanted stories, or ingrained political bias of reporters and editors, or simply because the press is manifesting their traditional dislike of the military?

Is Boykin so lacking in touching the pulse of America that he can't find the heartbeat in the heartland, thinking that it is OK for Screamin' Howie to make racist comments without the body politic taking umbrage? Does he think that it is OK for a doctor to perform partial birth abortions by suctioning the brains out of the baby's skull, just because that baby is unwanted? And normal people are not supposed to be offended by this barbarism? And what's with this deception that Republicans want to amend the Constitution to allow for discrimination against homosexuals? What alleged rights do homosexuals have that nobody else has? If the standard, long-held, biologically sensible, morally correct definition of marriage is the blessed and holy union of a man and a woman, who gives the liberals the power to change these definitions?

And what's wrong with posting the 10 Commandments in court rooms, in post offices, and in every federal state, county and city office in the land? How does the posting of said common sense laws offend anybody other than an anti-American cretin, while at the same time, does not promote any religion?

Get a grip, Boykin, it's your problem, not America's.
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Ay sus, yet another nifty bit of externalization and historical (hysterical) revisionism. If nothing else, Dean is a flail tank and it?s only a matter of which direction the tracks are pulling that defines where the flail chains hit.

Recall the extreme vigor and intensity used when he went after his Democratic Party primary opponents, goodness. Thereupon King Teddy and the media shunted and blitzed his sorry ass to earth and that was it for that, poof. Now it appears it?s kissy-face, makeup, all is forgiven time and the flail chains are smacking away at any Democrat or Republican that doesn?t fit into Dean?s exceptionally narrow, bigoted, high db level of leftist orthodoxy.

If Dean could turn green he surely would be the reenactment of the ?Incredible Hulk?, MD title and all. Fun to watch but the ruckus going on inside the Demo tent may dictate the need for some solidarity of mission and less of the Hulk?s nasty diatribes. And Dean?s externalization is the funniest thing of all; I mean that?s a real hoot. That guy is an extreme ankle biter of long standing and has total ownership of that behavior, no one else. Ha, there are meds for that condition so it maybe a case of ?physician, heal thyself?.

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I personally know Joe Biden. He's a nice guy to talk to but an arshlock of a politician. If you ever shake hands with him make sure you still have your rings and wristwatch, and count your fingers.
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Screamin' Howie is the gift that keeps on giving, the very same description of the gold-plated "I actually voted for the appropriation before I voted against it" phrase by John "Did I ever tell you I was a Vietnam veteran" Kerry.
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