Dean determined to save party
These were the headlines that greeted me today along with a picture of Dean speaking at Dartmouth last week, in the Connecticut Valley Spectator. The artice starts;
Hanover - Don't write Howard Dean off yet. The former Vermont Governor is, in fact, a reborn warrior who's set his sights squarely on the mission of reuniting both his party and his country to undo the carnage of the Nov. 2 elections.
More after the jump.
Speaking at Dartmouth College Sunday, Dean made no mention...(of whether) he is mulling a bid to become chairmain of the Democratic National Committee. But what he did say left little doubt that Dean sees himself as a leading uniter of his battered party...Dean leveled both barrels of his political furor, one at the policies and "failures" of the Bush administration and the other at the failed strategies of his own Democratic party.
Then he lit into the Repugs for claiming to be the moral ones, saying that they use scare tactics about gay rights and abortion.
Dean, sounding very much like a candidate, asked, "But where are the works of the Republicans that they dare say they have a corner on moral values?"
Saying that he doesn't see the United States as a nation divided, he calls for coalition building along moral and societal lines to unite the country.
His perscription? "To win in 2008", Dean said, "we must build the same coalition FDR built".
Again hammering on Bush and the Republican party, Dean stated " the history of mankind is littered with the bodies of those who thought they had a right to God for themselves." Saying that history is again repeating itself, Dean said the time to reverse this trend is now.
The he went after the Dems.
Dean agin sounded very much like a candidate in proclaiming "We don't need two Republican parties, and as long as I'm around we won't!...Some say we must move more toward the middle...if we move any further to the middle, we'll fall off the edge of the flat earth", he declared.
While the former Vermont governor...didn't directly answer ...if he would seek his presidential bid in 2008, he spoke all night like a candidate, if not for the leadership of his country, perhaps for the chairmanship of his party.
My hero.
Once again saying it like it is. "No retreat, no surrender", indeed.