Soccer Mom: Unplugged

I guess they really do need the money after all.  Howard Dean kneels before the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in another blatant  public display of pandering.  Basically, Howie has revised his statements on the 700 Club by using the all too familiar "oops I did it again" defense.

WASHINGTON - Democratic chairman Howard Dean mischaracterized his party's platform on gay rights in an interview courting evangelicals, then set the record straight Thursday when an advocacy group called him on it.

Dean told Christian Broadcasting Network News that the 2004 Democratic platform declares "marriage is between a man and a woman" just one of the points he made in reaching out to religious conservatives who are largely hostile to the party.

But the platform does not define marriage that way, and his remarks prompted the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to return a $5,000 donation from the Democratic National Committee.

Dean later acknowledged his misstatement, but the group sent back the money anyway. "We need for Governor Dean to demonstrate real leadership on our issues," executive director Matt Foreman said in an interview, "not to equivocate depending on the audience."

Got that, Howie, even your own supporters are telling you to stop lying.

But, you know Howard Dean,  he's like E.F. Hutton.  He speaks and people listen.  Then they laugh their butts off.  Check out this quote.

Dean said that "one of the misconceptions about the Democratic Party is that we're godless and that we don't have any values."

Howard makes a nice point here.  The Dems have been mischaracterized as a party without values.  They have a value.  In this case it seems to be $5000.

He went on: "The truth is, we have an enormous amount in common with the Christian community, and particularly with the evangelical Christian community. And one of the biggest things that Democrats worry about is the materialism of our country, what's on television that our kids are seeing, and the lack of spirituality."

And then he really steps in it.  He actually says, "We have an enormous amount in common with the Christian community..."  In other words, he acknowledges that they are not a part of said community.  They aren't particularly religious, says Dean, but they do have some commonalities with people of faith.  Paging Dr. Freud....