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Governer Dean Becomes Chair of DNC
sg3000 writes "It's official: the Democrats elected Howard Dean as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Dean won the position after a particularly contentious run for chairman, as reported in The New Republic. Governor Dean became a national figure during his impressive run for president in 2003, where he started as an outsider and long-shot candidate but became the front runner, only to see support fail to materialize during the Iowa caucuses."
i'm just curious, when you suck down that much right-wing spin (regardless of your own political views), do you get dizzy?
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But if they remade themselves as the Party of Tolerance, I think they could do a lot better. They could brand the Republicans as intolerant, exclusionist, backwards. They could make gay rights into the Civil Rights struggle of the new generation that it will inevitably be and call themselves the champions of it... Put some very charismatic, very likable gay people on TV. Have them tell their stories. "Why does President Bush hate this man? Why doesn't he deserve the right to marry someone he loves? Why does the Republican Party think they're more moral than him, when he's just trying to live his life with the hand God dealt him?" The Republicans are VERY vulnerable on this front, and the Democrats could make a lot of headway pushing at it. They could also make the world a much better place.
*psst*.... In case you haven't noticed, the media has tried this. They've tried their best to put a palatable face on homosexuality. Tell me, when is the last time you've ever seen an ugly or mean homosexual on T.V.? Prison scenes excluded (and one could make a viable case that many prisoners involved in prison rape are not homosexual), what about a violent one? In fact, that whole portrayal of the Matthew Shepard murder was almost exactly what you describe. What's more, notice how those who disagree with homosexuality are portrayed; they're violent, backwater idiots.
And yet, despite the fact that the media has attempted to shove homosexuality down our throats, most Americans remain unconvinced. Most of this generation embrace the civil rights struggle of the '60s and Women's rights movements, and see both as necessary, good things. However, gay rights movement of today isn't the same thing or of the same merit. Homosexuals can still vote. Homosexuals can and do hold office. Legally, there's nothing different from a homosexual individual than a heterosexual. In fact, because hate crime laws are only enforced for minorities, one could make the case that a homosexual has more institutional rights than a heterosexual.
The fact of the matter is that the gay rights movement of today doesn't want tolerance: they already have it. They want acceptance, which paradoxically is an ideologically intolerant position. If the democratic party centers itself around that kind of liberal fascism, they can only look forward to more losses in the future--which would be a bad thing for all of us. The system needs a viable opposition to work.
-Grym
And if they did that, then the Republicans could reincarnate Hitler and get the vast Christian majority of this country to vote him in on "moral issues."
I'm really, really sick of people associating the Republicans with Hitler. Lets take a look at Hitler's political beliefs.
He was for:
abortion (like the democrats)
censorship (like the democrats.. under the mask of being politically correct)
euthanasia (like the democrats/left)
gun control (like the democrats)
vegetarianism (like the democrats/left).
national socialism (like the democrats)
So Mr. Dragon, before you argue that Hitler would be a republican if he were reincarnated I suggest you go read up a bit about him. A Hitler/Stalin ticket would probably do really well in the primary elections for the democrats, but get crushed nationally. But hey, that isn't much different from what usually happens to you guys.