Howard Dean Is Just Being Howard Dean

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Howard Dean Is Just Being Howard Dean

By Robert Paul Reyes
June 12, 2005

You don't expect professional wrestlers (oxymoron?) to engage in eloquent soliloquies when referring to their opponents. You will most likely hear gems like this: I'm a gonna rip my opponent's fool head off and give it to my kids so they can play basketball with it.

We shouldn't expect a scholarly exchange of ideas when politicians cross swords with each other.

I can't understand the faux outrage of Republicans at Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean's recent colorful statements. Earlier this week, Dean told a rapt audience that Republicans are "not very friendly to different kinds of people. They are a pretty monolithic party. . . . it's pretty much a white, Christian party."

That's not exactly a newsflash, you don't have to be a rocket scientist or a political science major to notice that the Republican Party is indeed a bastion of white Christians.

And it's no secret that Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people, namely gays, minorities and anyone who is not a white Christian.

Dean also recently declared that Republicans "never made an honest living in their lives." That statement is a slight exaggeration, it would be more accurate to state that "Republican politicians never made an honest living in their lives." Actually, after further review, I should say that "Politicians never made an honest living in their lives."

Hyperbole is the stock-in-trade of used car dealers and politicians. Let's get real, Howard Dean is just being Howard Dean.

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About the author: Robert Paul Reyes is a columnist for the Lynchburg Ledger.

Email: rreyes4966@aol.com

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