Is Howard Dean on the GOP's payroll?
WASHINGTON -- National Democratic Chairman Howard Dean was defending another of his comments Friday after telling liberal activists a lot of Republicans "have never made an honest living in their lives."Republicans called his Thursday comment "mudslinging." Some fellow Democrats expressed reservations over his choice of words, too, before Dean amplified his comments.
"The point I was making is clear: Republican policies have declared war on hardworking Americans," Dean said Friday. "I will continue to criticize Republican leaders and their policies, and the Democratic Party will continue to offer constructive alternatives."
The Democratic chairman made the initial comments about Republicans doing "an honest day's work" Thursday during a speech to a Washington conference sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future.
While discussing the hardship of working all day and then standing in line for eight hours to vote, Dean had said, "Well, Republicans, I guess, can do that because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives."
Ummm, hmmm.
You know, when they see this kind of ghastly stuff, sponsored as it is by one of their own, a lot of Republicans have to think to themselves, "Maybe my party has been in power too long; maybe it should return to the minority for a while and get reacquainted with its values." No, these Republicans don't imagine themselves voting for the Democrats; they just imagine themselves not voting, which is the next best thing for the Democrats. And then right as they're imagining it, Howard Dean drops trouser.
Howie, maybe you're getting a little sumtin'-sumtin' from Karl Rove? Hmmm? After all, somebody is getting their money's worth here and it sure as hell ain't the DNC.