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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

So Sweet, It Gave Me a Toothache

Emily Wagster’s fawning AP report on Dean’s speech in Jackson, Miss. is just too much:

JACKSON, Miss. - Praying for American troops and evoking biblical images of helping the needy, Howard Dean told Mississippi Democrats on Tuesday night that the national party won’t give up on socially conservative states.

“We’re not going to concede the South,” the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee told an overflow crowd of more than 900 people in a dining room that was set up for 800 in the Clarion hotel near downtown Jackson.

“The South will rise again, and when it does, it will have a D after its name,” Dean said to applause from the diverse crowd of blacks and whites.

Dean: embrace the south, embrace religion.

“I want to reach out to people who are worried about values,” Dean said. “We are going to embrace pro-life Democrats because pro-life Democrats care about kids after they’re born, not just before they’re born.”

Embrace pro-lifers.

He prayed for American troops, saying even those who had criticized the war in Iraq should support soldiers and their families.

Embrace the war.

“The way we’re going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite,” Dean said.

Actually doctor, that is precisely how your party plans on winning elections.

Posted on March 2, 2005 10:24 AM. Permalink