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"We're smart, you're dumb" from Howard "The Scream" Dean.
From newsmax.com....
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/21/151505.shtml
My comments in bold..
Monday, March 21, 2005 2:35 p.m. EST
Dean to Dems: 'Keep It Simple'
Newly ordained Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who lost his own bid for the White House last year despite an early lead, thinks he has a plan for his party to regain the Oval Office in 2008 and beyond.
OK, what's the plan? John Kerry had many "plans", but we never heard them
His advice? "Keep it simple" so Americans will realize that they really prefer the Democrats to the Republicans.
That's the "plan"? Infer that Americans too stupid to grasp anything more than a soundbite? Oh, that'll win friends and influence people. Ever read Dale Carnegie, Howard?
The Toronto Star reports that Dean, in a message to supporters on Sunday, described Republicans as "brain dead," but said eventual Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts lost to President Bush because party leaders and representatives have a "tendency to explain every issue in half an hour of detail."
Great plan, Howard. Try to convert Republicans to your side by calling them "brain dead" and too stupid to grasp detail. Not to mention your recent comment that they are "evil republicans"
Dean, in Toronto to address 150 members of the group Democrats Abroad – formed in 1964 to register Americans living out of the country to vote as Democrats – warned, "I'm going to be very disciplined about how we deliver messages. According to the Star, the one-time Vermont governor added: "We can have policy deliberations in rooms like this. On TV, we have to be very focused."
Translation..We democrats in this room are smart, but we're too smart for the public and we'll have to dumb it down. But, we're not smart enough to realize that we come across as pompous jerks.
Republicans, meanwhile, have managed to hone their message expertly, Dean said, noting that his party needs to learn that skill. "The Democrats will have three things, maybe four, that we're going to talk about," he said, according to the paper.
But the "brain dead" doesn't apply to the GOP politicians, since they "hone their message expertly"?
The message seemed similar to one he delivered last month when seeking the DNC's chairmanship. "The Democratic Party will not win elections or build a lasting majority solely by changing its rhetoric, nor will we win by adopting the other side's positions," he said then. "We must say what we mean — and mean real change when we say it."
So...we're going to give the same old rejected policy positions and not come up with anything new. "Say what we mean and mean real change when we say it". What the heck does that mean? Does that mean they've not been saying what they've meant up to this point? I dunno, I guess I'm just a brain-dead repub.
And while Dean has called for an end to the "consultant culture" – scores of paid advisers who, he says, gave conflicting and confusing advice to Kerry last year
We're not that smart after all, but still smarter than those "evil repubs". We've never heard the expression "Too many cooks spoil the broth".
others say the reason the Democrats lost the White House and more seats in Congress is because their messages aren't resonating with voters. They say most people do not agree with Democrats' positions on social, moral and cultural issues especially.
Have the "others" run the Democrat Party. They're smarter than Dean! They actually "get it" that the current liberal philosophy doesn't make sense.
"The majority is on our side," he told the Toronto gathering. "We need to figure out how to talk differently about these issues."
Perhaps Dean missed the election results, which seemed to prove that the majority of Americans were on the side of the Republicans.
From newsmax.com....
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/21/151505.shtml
My comments in bold..
Monday, March 21, 2005 2:35 p.m. EST
Dean to Dems: 'Keep It Simple'
Newly ordained Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who lost his own bid for the White House last year despite an early lead, thinks he has a plan for his party to regain the Oval Office in 2008 and beyond.
OK, what's the plan? John Kerry had many "plans", but we never heard them
His advice? "Keep it simple" so Americans will realize that they really prefer the Democrats to the Republicans.
That's the "plan"? Infer that Americans too stupid to grasp anything more than a soundbite? Oh, that'll win friends and influence people. Ever read Dale Carnegie, Howard?
The Toronto Star reports that Dean, in a message to supporters on Sunday, described Republicans as "brain dead," but said eventual Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts lost to President Bush because party leaders and representatives have a "tendency to explain every issue in half an hour of detail."
Great plan, Howard. Try to convert Republicans to your side by calling them "brain dead" and too stupid to grasp detail. Not to mention your recent comment that they are "evil republicans"
Dean, in Toronto to address 150 members of the group Democrats Abroad – formed in 1964 to register Americans living out of the country to vote as Democrats – warned, "I'm going to be very disciplined about how we deliver messages. According to the Star, the one-time Vermont governor added: "We can have policy deliberations in rooms like this. On TV, we have to be very focused."
Translation..We democrats in this room are smart, but we're too smart for the public and we'll have to dumb it down. But, we're not smart enough to realize that we come across as pompous jerks.
Republicans, meanwhile, have managed to hone their message expertly, Dean said, noting that his party needs to learn that skill. "The Democrats will have three things, maybe four, that we're going to talk about," he said, according to the paper.
But the "brain dead" doesn't apply to the GOP politicians, since they "hone their message expertly"?
The message seemed similar to one he delivered last month when seeking the DNC's chairmanship. "The Democratic Party will not win elections or build a lasting majority solely by changing its rhetoric, nor will we win by adopting the other side's positions," he said then. "We must say what we mean — and mean real change when we say it."
So...we're going to give the same old rejected policy positions and not come up with anything new. "Say what we mean and mean real change when we say it". What the heck does that mean? Does that mean they've not been saying what they've meant up to this point? I dunno, I guess I'm just a brain-dead repub.
And while Dean has called for an end to the "consultant culture" – scores of paid advisers who, he says, gave conflicting and confusing advice to Kerry last year
We're not that smart after all, but still smarter than those "evil repubs". We've never heard the expression "Too many cooks spoil the broth".
others say the reason the Democrats lost the White House and more seats in Congress is because their messages aren't resonating with voters. They say most people do not agree with Democrats' positions on social, moral and cultural issues especially.
Have the "others" run the Democrat Party. They're smarter than Dean! They actually "get it" that the current liberal philosophy doesn't make sense.
"The majority is on our side," he told the Toronto gathering. "We need to figure out how to talk differently about these issues."
Perhaps Dean missed the election results, which seemed to prove that the majority of Americans were on the side of the Republicans.
