“Culture of Corruption”: Howard Dean and The DNC Talking Points
“I’m tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We’re fighting for freedom in Iraq. We’re going to fight for freedom in America.” — Howard Dean
“Dean calls for end to ‘culture of corruption’,” declares the headline today by the Portland Press Herald.
“The Bush White House is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history since President Warren G. Harding’s, said Howard Dean during his first visit to Maine as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.”
. . .“The first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to have ethics come back to Washington again,” said Dean, the keynote speaker at Saturday night’s annual fundraising dinner for the Maine Democratic Party at the Lewiston Armory.
And who better to bring back ethics than another Clinton?
Besides having all the rhetorical charm of someone suffering from Tourette’s syndrome, Howard Dean makes one thing clear: he’s sticking to the script, adhering to the DNC talking points. Alleging “GOP corruption” is a critical theme for the party that has no unique message of their own.
“DeLay is just the tip of the iceberg,” proclaims the DNC’s website. “But Democrats are committed to ending the culture of corruption and restoring honest government.”
Executive Director, Tom McMahon, sent the following message to Democrats across the country on Friday. The goal: Fundraising. Or as McMahon implores: “[L]et’s show that ordinary people contributing whatever they can afford can double the most notorious money-for-influence machine in politics.”
Wonder if he’s talking about unions? Or the Kennedy family?
We’ll give the DNC credit for one thing; they’ve got a real snazzy graphic and interactive media to peddle the anti-GOP propoganda.
Nonetheless, it’ll take more than fun mouse-clicks to win an election. It requires a message that resonates with the majority of voters, a set of core values and beliefs that can be embraced broadly, and a candidate that can deliver it all with sincerity and charisma.
Hillary ain’t that.
UPDATE:
PoliticalTeen has more on Screamin’ Dean, including video.
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October 23rd, 2005 at 9:40 pm
As opposed to the culture of virtue under the Clinton administration?
October 23rd, 2005 at 10:13 pm
“As opposed to the culture of virtue under the Clinton administration?”
Not exactly. Like the culture of virtue at Chuckie Schumer’s DSCC, where fraudulently obtaining a man’s credit history is allowed.
After all, 2 Clintons & a Schumer are pretty much the same ethical scumbags.
October 23rd, 2005 at 11:25 pm
Democrat’s Corruption File!
Must we remind them of all the scandals when they were in power? The House Banking Scandal, RostenkowskiÂ’s fraud conviction and his pilfering of Capitol building furniture, not to mention all the vandalism and theft that occurred in the Whitehouse in…
October 24th, 2005 at 7:57 am
Ken Delay is going down. It’s time for us to realize it, take responsibility for it, stop making excuses and comparisons to DEMS and let him go.
October 24th, 2005 at 8:42 am
The Dems hate is all consuming, it is in every breath they take.
There is no way Tom Delay is the kind of criminal that Bill and Hillary have been. Just ask all the dead people that are strewn along the Clinton’s path to the Oval Office and even after they were elected. Sorry but Vince Foster and the others cannot be reached for a comment.
October 24th, 2005 at 10:31 am
Why do so many of my fellow Conservatives keep comparing themselves to former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton? We won the elections!It’s time to look to the future and not be so hung up on the Clinton years. President Clinton became President because WE screwed up! Remember, “read my lips, I will not raise taxes”? President Bush flip-flopped on us and that is why we gotBill. Ifwe don’t get our shit together now, we will have another Clinton in the White House and we will only have ourselves to blame.
January 31st, 2006 at 8:58 am
[...] It’s the perpetuation of stereotype. And liberal Democrats are all to eager to promote it. Newsbusters’ Tim Graham noted that the reporter who penned the piece had also mentioned the same researchers and the same study in a Washington Post magazine piece (titled, ironically enough, “See No Bias”) almost exactly a year ago–leading up to the State of Union address. What a coincidence. Indeed. [...]