From "Dean Answers Cheney's Barb About Mother" at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5089244,00.html ,
"Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, responding to criticism from the vice president, said he doesn't ``care if Dick Cheney likes my mother or not.''
The vice president said in a recent interview that Dean was not the type of person to lead a political party and mentioned the chairman's mother.
``I've never been able to understand his appeal. Maybe his mother loved him, but I've never met anybody who does. He's never won anything, as best I can tell,'' Cheney said in an interview on Fox News Channel's ``Hannity & Colmes.''
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Dean, in Boston on Monday for a fundraiser, told fellow Democrats that Republicans want a smaller government, but ``their government is just big enough to fit inside Terri Schiavo's bed in the nursing home. We can do better than that.''
(more mama below fold)
Earlier this year, Dean, a physician, accused congressional Republicans of grandstanding in trying to keep the brain-damaged woman alive and said Democrats will use that against them in coming elections.
The party chairman also said on Monday that Democrats can win in traditionally Republican states.
``But we gotta be there and fight in order to do it. And believe me, we are going to fight back. I don't care if Dick Cheney likes my mother or not. We are going to fight back,'' Dean said to cheers and applause. ``I think it's great that Dick Cheney went after me, to be honest. At least they notice there's a Democratic Party that's not going to put up with this stuff any more. So there's a lot we're gonna do.''"