Dean: Republicans are like … Milosevic
posted at 12:20 pm on August 26, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Howard Dean, keeping the hate alive in Denver:
You see, the Republicans are very, very good at dividing people. You know, they’re always … you gotta be mad because this group is against that and that group doesn’t get that. That’s terrible for the country, but it’s a time-honored way to win elections, and people use it in all kinds of different countries … Slobodan Milosevic used it in Yugoslavia!
Howard Dean in January:
“I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for…”
Howard Dean in February:
“This is a struggle between good and evil and we’re the good.”
Now, after the identity-politics meltdown that the entire nation witnessed in the Democratic primaries this cycle, and with Dean’s own quotes as context, which party seems more obsessed with groupthink — Democrats or Republicans? Which party set factions against each other more in 2008, all the way to the convention — Democrats or Republicans? Which candidate launched multiple, unfounded smears of racism — Barack Obama or John McCain?
Poor Howard Dean. In the end, all he has is hate.
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…and Russia is attempting to do it in Georgia.
Which side are you supporting that little ordeal, Howie?
YEAAAAAAAAUGHHHHHH!
MadisonConservative on August 26, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Oh no he di’nt…….
rockmom on August 26, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Yeaarrrgh!
Did anyone else hear that?
Vanceone on August 26, 2008 at 12:25 PM
The perfect head of the DNC…
Ace ODale on August 26, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Terry McAuliff is ROFLHAO now, and will be in November when ol’ Howie gets the heave-ho
funky chicken on August 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Even in politics, Dr. Dean specializes in malpractice.
BrianA on August 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM
And his Primordial Scream!
upinak on August 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM
that’s at least semi-creative as compared to saying we are like hitler
Defector01 on August 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM
I hope he stays the DNC chair for many long years to come.
wise_man on August 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Poor Howard Dean. In the end, all he has is hate.
And stupidity.
Alamo on August 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM
And what a miracle…..the dems did actually find somebody more loathsome than McAuliff to run their party. I didn’t know that was possible.
funky chicken on August 26, 2008 at 12:27 PM
It reminded me of his quotes from some years ago and you (Ed Morrissey) found some of them, though you seem not to have realized it. “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for…” is from January 2005.
ForNow on August 26, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Wow, this man really speaks truth to power! So many Democrats simply lack the courage to point out that disagreeing with them is really the moral equivalent of brutal ethnic cleansing, and cannot be tolerated in a free society. Not Howard Dean. As McCain said, he’s just the gift that keeps on giving…
morganfrost on August 26, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Hey Howard look out the window. Those aren’t angry members of the Vast Right Wing Conspriarcy mixing it up with the police. During the primary season you refer them to as your base.
Just A Grunt on August 26, 2008 at 12:29 PM
The irony of the head of the party that divides by race, gender, class, sexuality is too, too rich. He’s either stupid or a liar. Actually, he’s both.
SouthernGent on August 26, 2008 at 12:30 PM
The Banshee strikes again!
Weebork on August 26, 2008 at 12:30 PM
drunkenmaster says, you should never hold in your screams (or other bodily functions).
Howard Dean must be very healthy. Though his kungfu seems weak.
drunkenmaster on August 26, 2008 at 12:32 PM
funny, what’s it Biden who wanted to split up a country based on ethnic differences? that’s not divisive or anything…nooooo
bloghooligan on August 26, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Dean for President.
(of maybe a midwest liberal University.)
He’d fit real nice in one of those “institutions.”
tonylipsey on August 26, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Dean is a walking talking nightmare for the DNC. I used to think Terry Mcauliffe had been a terrible head of the DNC until Dean took over.
elduende on August 26, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Were goin’ to Yugoslavia!! Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaah!
p40tiger on August 26, 2008 at 12:34 PM
He’s just playing to his audience. If the other side is evil and every member a Hitler wanna-be, then nothing you do can be considered out of bounds in attempting to defeat them.
You can justify and excuse just about any action as a Leftist with this attitude. How else do you explain the nutroots and the Dem leadership?
Asher on August 26, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Howard Dean: I know I will win this country over using an us versus them tactic, a good versus evil strategy. We will be good and they will be evil. Now how can I paint them as evil……I know I will claim they use a divide and conquer tactics. Brilliant!
chb03c on August 26, 2008 at 12:35 PM
I am so glad that I am a member of the party of division. At least I am divided from idiots like Dean!
bopbottle on August 26, 2008 at 12:35 PM
More projection.
lorien1973 on August 26, 2008 at 12:35 PM
What bothers me most about Howie Dean is that this guy is supposed to be a doctor, meaning you have to have some level of compassion if you want to continue in that profession.
But every single time I see or hear this guy, I see and hear nothing but hate, and I mean vile hate. It actually gets to the point that I have to turn away.
For the life of me, I cannot understand how the Democrats can allow someone with so much vitriol to run the Party, especially if they want to win over voters.
Right now, the only thing they winning over are the far left kook snail slime that normally dwell in dark dank places like the Huffington Post and Daily KOS.
I swear, Democratic greats (yes, there were some) like Roosevelt and Truman have to be spinning like tops in their graves every single time Dean opens his mouth.
It is seriously disturbing.
pilamaye on August 26, 2008 at 12:37 PM
I wonder if Kirsten Powers agrees with Howard Dean.
wise_man on August 26, 2008 at 12:38 PM
What’s in YOUR wallet, Howie?
You pathetic loser.
mojo on August 26, 2008 at 12:39 PM
It’s something that the Dems always accuse us of doing exactly what they’re guilty of.
I’d like to punch that guy in the face.
CP on August 26, 2008 at 12:39 PM
All this talk of unity…why would I ever want to be friends with a pile of scum like Dean?
WisCon on August 26, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Remember, democrats have so many loathsome people to choose from. That, and they make such behavior a job requiment.
Right_of_Attila on August 26, 2008 at 12:39 PM
The REPUBLICANS divide people into groups????? I am flabberghasted. Apparently I am in Bizarro World again.
HawaiiLwyr on August 26, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Concur… just like Liars are always accusing OTHERS of lieing….
Cheaters are the first to accuse OTHERS of cheating…
A dem trying to accuse someone of divisive politics??? HUH?
Romeo13 on August 26, 2008 at 12:40 PM
POT: You’re black.
KETTLE: Up yours.
Akzed on August 26, 2008 at 12:40 PM
I love that this idiot is running their party.
Ya know, it’s time like these when I wouldn’t mind ethnically cleansing our country of socialists, marxists, communists, demagoguing racist bigots and hypocrites.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on August 26, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Ace, he would also be a good head for a pimple.
YEEEEEAAAAAA!
tre on August 26, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Dean is without a doubt the slimiest bastard I’ve witnessed lately. People must understand the he is the epitome of a Democrat.
rplat on August 26, 2008 at 12:42 PM
It’s all good if you surrender your will and soul to the government. Right Howie?
Oooh…those evil Republicans. Fighting for freedom and liberty instead of government dependency since the system is so inherently biased (indicating that some are more equal to others).
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on August 26, 2008 at 12:42 PM
“You see, the Republicans are very, very good at dividing people. We, here at the DNC, are all about bringing people together- by any means necessary. Look at our primaries and our convention. Allowing people to actually vote is divisive, Republican behavior. We favor having our insiders choose our candidates in opposition to public opinion. Then, we stage our convention and ban legitimate voting in favor of nomination by acclamation. All in the name of unity. You see, if people can’t actually vote, we are unified, right?”
Damiano on August 26, 2008 at 12:42 PM
What do you expect? Afterall, wasn’t it Dr. Dean that pointed out to us not so long ago that the Republicans are the “white” party, and the Dems are the party of diversity? Looking at it that way, it’s the ignorant members of the white race (aka the GOP) against everyone else – - the Dem whites are “enlightened” of course.
Rick on August 26, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Howard Dean invokes Godwin’s Law…
…which proves that he’s lost the argument.
fossten on August 26, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Is Dean the pot or the kettle? I keep forgetting….
Vashta.Nerada on August 26, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Dean is a detestable flake, idiot, and loser. In other words, he is the embodiment of that party.
jencab on August 26, 2008 at 12:44 PM
WIth idiots like this out there in front of people, we may just have a good election, yet!
DaveS on August 26, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Two words… psychological projection.
Texas Rainmaker on August 26, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Is this retard still talking?
One word:
BYAH!!!!!!
leetpriest on August 26, 2008 at 12:46 PM
I like the fact he feels compelled to explain which one they are!
highhopes on August 26, 2008 at 12:48 PM
To think that he was within screaming distance of getting the nomination.
highhopes on August 26, 2008 at 12:49 PM
Yeah Howard? Well…you’re stupid!
CFL on August 26, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Dean is an idiot…but the vast majority of Free Republic supports Milosevic, FWIW…
philnewkirk on August 26, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Neither, they are both black. And, if you say that, and you are a Repub, that makes you a RACIST!!
SARCASM
Rick on August 26, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Yeah, because everyone considers infanticide good, right? I guess that does appease the enviro-nuts that have infested that party so it is one less carbon polluter on the planet (and also not a punishment!).
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on August 26, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Howard obviously showed restraint and moderation when he avoided the low road of a Hitler comparison.
moxie_neanderthal on August 26, 2008 at 12:52 PM
What? Dean-o was on BONBC? I’m shocked!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on August 26, 2008 at 12:52 PM
The better historical figure du jour is Stalin. He would be proud of the Obama machine and their manipulations.
grdred944 on August 26, 2008 at 12:53 PM
That there are grown men and women that take this snake and the rest of Dem leadership seriously–and choose to follow them–bewilders me.
Guiltless liars and thieves. Creepy.
pugwriter on August 26, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Non-entities Jim Leach and Chuck Hagel were unavailable for comment.
JammieWearingFool on August 26, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Especially with regard to voting and elections!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on August 26, 2008 at 12:54 PM
As Dick Enberg would say, “Oh my.”
gabriel sutherland on August 26, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Howard Dean holds the sad distinction of being the dumbest democrat official in service.
And the competition is fierce.
madne0 on August 26, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Realistically, both the DNC and RNC conventions these days are nothing but staged commericals.
Except for the fact that Hillary still has a crowd of angry hens out there trying to change the outcome, it makes as much sense to simply nominate by acclamation than it does going through the farce of having the states actually “vote.” The thing I find interesting about this DNC convention is the extent of negotiating that is going on to put a public face of unity on a party bitterly divided.
Much the same is going to happen again next week at the GOP convention as cranky liberal bastard and his minions try to build bridges to the social conservatives and evangelicals they have thus far alienated and insulted.
highhopes on August 26, 2008 at 12:55 PM
or even better if you say, “…you are a racist, that makes you a republican”
Vashta.Nerada on August 26, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Yeah, so, how’s that whole Hillary and Obama thing going? Good?
Seixon on August 26, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Howard Dean is what happens to people when they can write their own prescriptions.
TheBigOldDog on August 26, 2008 at 12:58 PM
highhopes on August 26, 2008 at 12:48 PM
+1
ex-Democrat on August 26, 2008 at 12:59 PM
So true!
ctmom on August 26, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Howard Dean: Like Madonna with better range.
BohicaTwentyTwo on August 26, 2008 at 1:01 PM
For Republicans: “If that’s not the pot calling the kettle black… !”
For the average public-school-educated-Democrat: “Who the hell is Slobodan Milosovic?”
Independent Conservative on August 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM
No… WE are!!!
There, that settles that.
And, in other news:
“I know you are, but what am I?”
Knuckledragger on August 26, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Did anybody notice how Ted Kennedy ran over the Clintons and then backed over them for good measure?
DfDeportation on August 26, 2008 at 1:04 PM
Howard who?
keepinitreal on August 26, 2008 at 1:08 PM
Had to think about that one for a minute…
Mr_Magoo on August 26, 2008 at 1:10 PM
To say something like that demonstrates new levels of hypocrisy. To call themselves a part of democracy is laughable. Leaders lead, while this democrat leader promotes hatred, fear, suspicion and exclusion of anyone of unlike thinking. Meaning we conservatives.
It is to the deterioration of the Democrat party that Dean brings. Once a party of openness and welcoming of all kinds, now finds itself a party of selective membership of communistic socialist values.
To openly promote hate is to damage his parties principals and values.
I couldn’t be more delighted!
Kini on August 26, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Isn’t there a limit to this guy’s stupidity? Unreal.
tomk59 on August 26, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Next time your found, with your chin on the ground
There a lot to be learned, so look around
Just what makes that little old ant
Think he’ll move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant, can’t
Move a rubber tree plant
But he’s got high hopes, he’s got high hopes
He’s got high apple pie, in the sky hopes
So any time your gettin’ low
’stead of lettin’ go
Just remember that ant
Oops there goes another rubber tree plant
When troubles call, and your back’s to the wall
There a lot to be learned, that wall could fall
Once there was a silly old ram
Thought he’d punch a hole in a dam
No one could make that ram, scram
He kept buttin’ that dam
‘Cause he had high hopes, he had high hopes
He had high apple pie, in the sky hopes
So any time your feelin’ bad
’stead of feelin’ sad
Just remember that ram
Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam
All problems just a toy balloon
They’ll be bursted soon
They’re just bound to go pop
Oops there goes another problem kerplop
Mr_Magoo on August 26, 2008 at 1:13 PM
I feel bad for the guy; he’s got a last name as his first and a first name for his last. I’d probably be a hateful pusbag if I were in his position, too.
Andrew D on August 26, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Could the modern Democrat Party be more deceptive and totalitarian in their lust for power? Seriously, just how much more cynical and Machiavellian can these propagandists be?
I’m sorry if this seems harsh, but the Democrat Party needs to be completely exposed and torn down. These people aren’t just hateful anarchists, they’re down-right dangerous! Once they release the Anarchy genie from the bottle, do they think that after they seize power they will somehow magically squeeze that “toothpaste” back in the tube? This is a dangerous and destructive game they’re playing with this country.
FiveWays on August 26, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Hey to use a baseball analogy Dean just threw a change-up, I am betting in all likelihood the next time he opens his cakehole he’ll bust a Franco reference.
sven10077 on August 26, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Apparently I am in Bizarro World again.
HawaiiLwyr on August 26, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Hey HawaiiLwyr….I’ve felt that for a long time. Up is down, good is bad, ACLU = fight the boy scouts, ACLU = defend NAMBLA.
Bixter on August 26, 2008 at 1:20 PM
You know, we have some really funny folks here. I mean the commenters on the threads (as in humorous), and not the democrat leadership (as in deranged).
Vashta.Nerada on August 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM
I wish people would appreciate how we suffered in Vermont to give the world the gift of Howie. It wasn’t easy paying for all his dead-end spending.
HelenW on August 26, 2008 at 1:26 PM
Boy, Howie’s really going to be down in the dumps when because of his laughable incompetence, another crappy Democrat candidate blows the third Presidential election in a row.
Keep Howie on the job, DNC. He’s worth his weight in cow dung.
NoDonkey on August 26, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Hmm, if that’s the case, and we listen to Obama and his supporters, aren’t the Clintons and their supporters Republicans now?
Rick on August 26, 2008 at 1:30 PM
The Democrats deserve to have that idiot as their leader.
ProximMaximus on August 26, 2008 at 1:32 PM
It becomes ever clearer to me that this country is moving towards another Civil War. The fact that half the people of this country are in the pocket of human dreck like Dean and Obama, willing to swallow any vile idea to advance their evil agenda, will ultimately have to be put down with force. These despicable creatures have advocated nothing but riots, looting, mayhem, criminality, and totalitarianism my entire long life. Negotiation and compromise with these Democrat monsters is not possible, any more than Southern slavers could reconcile with Northern abolitionists. But this time around it would seem that most of the firearms are in the hands of the enemies of the Democrats. When the shooting starts, they won’t prevail.
blackelkspeaks on August 26, 2008 at 1:34 PM
The DNC Big Tent: “…the convention in Denver will demonstrate to the nation, and to the world, that true unity is achieved not through ideological agreement, or political reconciliation, but through fanning the flames of a white-hot hatred for the enemies of diversity. We really don’t care what you believe, or who your favorite Democrat candidate might be. All that truly matters is that you fear and loathe Sen. John McCain, who is nothing more than the next incarnation of George W. Bush, a man who has turned this once-great nation into a 3,000-mile-wide Abu Ghraib prison camp.” — by Scott Ott
Barb Dwyer on August 26, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Howie, You must stay off the Hallucinatory drugs!
You sound like a fool…
Ted on August 26, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Well, yeah. Didn’t you see the press coverage for Herself? She knows how it feels now.
Vashta.Nerada on August 26, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Why must dhims make their biggest losers party leaders? I’m pretty conservative but I’ve met some democrats at lower levels of state and national representation who are pretty level- headed, and this guy gets to be their leader?
superdave on August 26, 2008 at 1:36 PM
The country has always been divided anyway.
Only about 40% of the colonists wanted to rebel against the king.
We argues over what kind of gov’t the new nation would have.
We fought over slavery.
We argued about reconciling with the South.
We argued about monopolies.
We argued about Prohibition.
We argued about solutions to the Depression.
We argued about the Nazi/Japanese threat.
We argued about racism.
We argued about the Soviet threat.
We’re still arguing abortion 35 yrs after the slaughter started.
If Dean thinks division is the GOP’s fault, does he think his caustic words are helping?
jgapinoy on August 26, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Well, Howie’s from Vermont and they keep making noise about leaving the USA. I don’t know his stand on that move, Anyone fill me in? However, I do not want anything “lobbed in” from VT(except possibly their cheese)as I live close to the border. LOL
jeanie on August 26, 2008 at 1:39 PM
Dean is like a turd.
Chakra Hammer on August 26, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Love you,
Entelechy on August 26, 2008 at 1:46 PM
I’m suprised old Cowboy Deano didn’t remind us that, like ALL republicans, Milosevic is white.
Rbastid on August 26, 2008 at 1:48 PM
An anagram for Obama-Biden is “Dean, a bimbo.”
I’ve got more at the top of Pillage Idiot today.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on August 26, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Dean stays up nights self loathing with images of others characterizing himself around the world. Then in the morning, he hurls those names at his opponents.
Yeeeeeeeeehaw KKK Dean’s stuck in his stew of sour grapes since it will never be him on the ticket! Just for fun, let’s hear Dean say, Go Biden three times in a row.
Bill Clinton’s Ode to Biden
He’s got a ticket to ride.
He’s got the ticket to rah-ah-ide.
He’s got a ticket to ride,
but she don’t care!
My baby don’t care!
People say Hillary’s preparing for 2012, but the final goal is, of course, to properly place her Chelsea eventually. Hillary’s runs, successful or not, enable Chelsea just as the Kennedy dynasty enabled Caroline to direct the DNC today. It’s a familial infight that brought Hillary’s doom, not effacing herself soon enough or consistently enough to the Kennedy Klan. Pride and the fall befit the Clintons momentarily, as likewise Obama snubbed the POST-MLK black political community, burning bridges a la the Gen. Shermann mode.
maverick muse on August 26, 2008 at 1:50 PM
The only thing Democrats like about this country is themselves.
NoDonkey on August 26, 2008 at 1:51 PM
I, for one, welcome the extensive coverage of the Democratic convention. I know that Obama being kept away from unscripted opportunities will probably give him a bit of a boost, but the more the rest of them talk, the more they hurt their cause.
And is it just me, or is Milosevic the new Hitler?
otcconan on August 26, 2008 at 1:51 PM
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