Dean - Sharpton in 2004? Don't suppose Jane Fonda's available,but wait,what
about Hal phillip Walker,someone planning to tax all the church's,wow.
Former Vermont governor Howard Dean accused his Democratic presidential
primary opponents yesterday of trying to run against the very Republican
policies they'd supported in Congress.
"I think our party is suffering because we keep nominating people who will
say anything they have to say to get elected," he said.
...
"Our candidates think the best way to get elected is to talk to everybody
about voting for things like the leave-every-school board-behind education
bill, which is going to cost the New Hampshire taxpayers $109 million," he
said. ". . . . I can't wait for those four guys from Congress to come up
here and explain to us why they wanted to raise your property taxes after
they supported a tax cut for the wealthiest people in America," he said.
Dean also criticized his opponents for voting to give Bush a "blank check"
on military intervention in Iraq - and, now, changing their tune on the issue.
"Today, they're running around telling you folks they're all anti-war," he
said. (Later, he acknowledged that Lieberman's vote was consistent with the
senator's comparatively "hawkish" position on Iraq.) "We're never going to
elect a president that does those things. If I voted for the Iraq
resolution, I'd be standing in favor, supporting it right now in front of you."
...
Al Qaida is a far greater menace than Saddam at the moment, Dean said, and
Bush has not done enough to deprive such fundamentalist terrorist networks
of the American oil money that helps fund their organizations.
"We can do better, but it requires a renewable energy policy and an oil
conservation policy that makes sense," Dean said. "We are not going to
change that unless we change presidents."
So Democrats, he concluded, must nominate a candidate who can win.
"Remember," he said, "we're not going to beat Bush with Bush lite."
