Howard Dean’s Odd Politics of Hate
What is it with Howard Dean and “hate.” When Republicans are in power, it’s right and good to hate them. When Democrats are in power, the party that we were once supposed to hate becomes the party of hate.
He claims he was taken out of context when he said he hated Republicans and everything they stood for and called the partisan differences in America “a struggle between good and evil and we’re the good.” Only when he didn’t say jsut how his remarks had been taken out of context nor did he apologize. He did say, “I don’t hate Republicans as individuals“, then added:
But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do. I hate deficits, as you know. When I was governor, I really was very tough on fiscal responsibility. Deficits in the long run aren’t good for the country, and they do lower our standard of living. Every American family knows that you have to pay your bills. I hate the dishonesty, you know, the idea that you’d put a program through Congress without telling people what it costs, I think that’s wrong.
Guess he must really hate this Administration, but then, he can’t because, well, he’s a Democrat and right now, only Republicans do the hating. Yet, given what Howard Dean said back in ‘05, you’d kind of understand it, you know by his standards, if Republicans did start pushing the hate button, I mean, with those big deficits we’re getting from team Obama.
He is, however, not praising them when he alleges they have the same attitudes toward a spendthrift Administration that he once did:
He also said that the Republican Party holds “untenable positions based on emotion and anger,” and that the GOP won’t be effective until they “stop pushing the hate button.”
To show just how out of touch is this former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, he spouts some nonsense about the Tea Party’s views on social issues. Guess he has a one-size-fits-all approach to conservatives. If they oppose a Democratic Administration, then they must be like the imaginary conservative inside his head, harboring hateful views of homosexuals.
Hate to break it to you, Howard, but those Tea Party folks are pretty concerned about the things that got you hating the Republicans lo these five years ago. Guess you just hate anyone who doesn’t have a (D) after his name and support your wayward left-wing ways.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. This is the crusty old pot which once boasted about its thick coat of soot calling black the kettle just back on the stove after a long scrubbing with multiple Brillo Pads.
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Hatred of your domestic political enemies is as natural as breathing. Hatred has gotten a bad name of late. It’s part of our makeup and I for one am tired of being preached at about it. Telling people not to hate is like telling them not to desire or fear. What’s important is how you handle the hate, the desire, the fear. And you can’t do that unless you recognize that it’s there. And it’s usually there for a very good reason.
One of the things I hate (!) about liberalism is that it forbids and pathologizes natural human responses in the name of some rootless higher ethical norm, base only in post-theistic narcissism. Talk about repression.
And another thing I hate about liberalism is that it is grounded in hatred and makes believe that it flows like syrup from the benevolence of an evolved mind and a caring heart.
Comment by EssEm — February 27, 2010 @ 1:10 pm - February 27, 2010
The reason I don’t show the “D” by name anymore is because of the politics of hate that Dean and his ilk showed against Hillary, and then Palin.
Comment by Ashpenaz — February 27, 2010 @ 1:26 pm - February 27, 2010
B. Daniel, just what do you consider “hateful attitudes” toward homosexuals? Non-support of gay marriage? Agreeing with the Biblical teaching that homosexual acts are sinful? Opposing advocacy of homosexuality in public schools? Just what, in your opinion, is “hate” for gays? Not a rhetorical question. I really want to know.
Comment by Seane-Anna — February 27, 2010 @ 11:28 pm - February 27, 2010
Just what, in your opinion, is “hate” for gays?
Jacob Robida would qualify. Fred Phelps would qualify.
And Seane-Anna, we’ve been over this before. I, for one, am not going to call you a hater for not supporting gay marriage, believing that homosexual acts are sinful, and opposing homosexual advocacy in public schools, inasmuch as I agree with you on two out of the three of those.
But really, what on earth is your point in this?
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 28, 2010 @ 2:56 am - February 28, 2010
Hey Seane-Anna, how about Screamin Howie firing a gay guy because his partner was critical of the sacred DNC?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 28, 2010 @ 6:19 am - February 28, 2010
“Jacob Robida would qualify. Fred Phelps would qualify.” Have heard of Phelps. Robida? I have no clue.
Comment by Seane-Anna — February 28, 2010 @ 11:12 pm - February 28, 2010
But, North Dallas Thirty, you’re not B. Daniel, are you?
Comment by Seane-Anna — February 28, 2010 @ 11:12 pm - February 28, 2010
#5, that happened? Really?
Comment by Seane-Anna — February 28, 2010 @ 11:13 pm - February 28, 2010