Media:
According to the media, Howard Dean is the epitome of the Democratic activist -he has mobilized the peace movement and he has single-handedly managed to control the Internet -a delusion which is extremely serious, compared to past efforts to ridicule a Democrat through the silly suggestion that Al Gore invented the Internet. Howard Dean's media profile is an absolute joke and it is safe to say that the only thing that his "peace activist" Internet savvy profile inspires --on the count of three now --one, two three...gag!

Reality:
Howard Dean is the biggest con artist in American history since Richard Nixon. He has promised to take the government out of the hands of special interest groups and give it back to ordinary voters, yet Howard Dean has also indicated that it is futile to try to reform the health care system because Congress will not let him do it. Anybody who takes this idiot seriously should be in therapy. Clearly, if Howard Dean cannot even reform the health care system what makes him think that he is in a position to take the government out of the hands of special interest groups? Perhaps, Howard Dean ought to define what he means by special interest groups because if he continues to dole out silly rhetoric through both sides of the mouth, George Bush will ask him to be his running mate, and Dick Cheney will finally be able to retire.

First and foremost, the notion that Howard Dean is a peace activist is absolutely fraudulent. To be sure, Howard Dean publicly opposed attacking Iraq to set him apart from fellow Democratic, but this feigned opposition has been repeatedly contradicted by the war hawk that Dean has conveniently repressed, for the sake of political expediency. Despite the popular misrepresentation that Howard Dean is a peace activist who opposes war, Dean even endorsed the Bush doctrine of preemptive war, saying that he would not rule out using military force to disarm either North Korea or Iran, and that makes him the biggest warmonger of all. In fact, Howard Dean is as crafty as Richard Nixon was. Have all the so called, peace activists forgotten Richard Nixon, the crafty warmonger who wrote The Real Peace to claim John Lennon's "constituency" after he was assassinated. To be sure, Lennon was not even an American, but he was the face of the peace movement, and Richard Nixon, the former master of the hostile takeover, believed that real peace was about waging and winning wars.

If you are a peace activist and you think that Howard Dean is your man, watch your back. Like Nixon before him, Howard Dean understands the distraction that peace advocates can potentially impose, and he thinks he has discovered a way to hijack their political influence. In particular, Senator John Kerry is the Democrat with a balanced view about war and peace, and Howard Dean's effort to create the impression that he is in fact the architect of the real peace reflects the very same, manifest delusion that preoccupied Richard Nixon. If you want to know who the real Howard Dean is, you have to compare his record to that of John Kerry, and then you will clearly understand the difference between a Democrat and a crafty, political opportunist.

Who is the real, Howard Dean? The real Howard Dean is best understood through his regressive and draconian view of the criminal justice system. As Governor, he underfunded public defense, and poured money into state's attorneys, police, and corrections. Dean managed to fill the prisons, not because crime increased, but because the public was treated like it was always wrong and the state was always right. Howard Dean is one of those arrogant extremists who thinks that he has the right to be judge, jury and executioner, and the climate he creates is best described by famed Attorney, Gerry Spense, who speaks from experience when he says;

There is a presumption of innocence, not a presumption of guilt, and everybody in this country has lost his presumption of innocence and goes into the courtroom, presumed guilty. People who do not have first hand experience with the justice system might be surprised to note that the problem appears to be so widespread that anybody who is oblivious to the fact that miscarriages of justice are very common, is promoting the myth rather than the reality. The average American in this country cannot get a fair trial. Ninety-seven per cent of the people charged eventually get convicted --now that is a frightening statistic. And I will tell you that a fair trial in this country is the biggest myth that's been laid out on the American people since the beginning of time.

Clearly, the campaign of this would-be tyrant who thinks that he is entitled to control the Democratic Party because the Internet can easily be used to launder the money of special interest groups, has peaked and is about to crash. The Iowa caucus is just one week away, and although the conventional wisdom claims that Howard Dean is still the front-runner, it is only a matter of time...

Indeed, Howard Dean does not have very much to say lately because he is too busy trying to deflect one gaffe after another, and the temper of this wanabe dictator is beginning to show. "I'm a little tired of the 'gotcha' politics of this campaign," Dean fumed on CNN as his campaign went into full defense mode, and this is just the beginning. If he is tired now, how does he expect to survive a race against George Bush? Needless to say, when the Democrats discover the real Howard Dean, he will not have to, because John Kerry and John Edwards will re-inherit the votes that belong to them.

As Governor, Howard Dean endorsed the National Governors Association policy opposing the Kyoto Protocol and recommending that the United States "not sign or ratify any agreement that would result in serious harm to the US economy." For environmentalists, EP, under Dean's leadership, came to mean "Expedite Permits", rather than Environmental Protection and business leaders were impressed with the way Dean went to bat for them against Vermont's stringent environmental regulations. Why is Al Gore supporting this guy?

Dean is supposed to be so popular that he has allegedly raised over $40 million, and the average donation, it is frequently pointed out, is well under $100. The zeal to create the impression that everybody except Howard Dean is influenced by special interests, is absolutely preposterous. Special interest groups are not morons, they use the Internet to direct money to the candidate of their choice, and they are better at it than anybody else because they let their money do all the talking. The claim that the people who are funding Dean's campaign do not expect anything in return, is an obscene fraud. Howard Dean's entire campaign is based on well orchestrated lies, distortions and deceptions and they are clearly too deliberate to fail to betray the pattern and the conduct of lobbyists who spend millions of dollars, to distort the truth. The claim that Howard Dean's campaign is driven by grass-root supporters is clearly a desperate fraud, and the exuberant enthusiasm of those who have taken the bait, is based on the failure to recognize the real Howard Dean.

According to popular misconception, Howard Dean has used the Internet to prove that the Republican and Democratic parties are no longer the most effective ways to organize like-minded people to achieve political ends. Clearly, the suggestion that Howard Dean has single-handedly upstaged the Democratic Party is the wet dream of crafty political operatives who have generated the perception that Howard Dean is essentially a third-party candidate who has used Internet technology to achieve a takeover of the Democratic Party. But perception is not reality. Like Richard Nixon, who collected million dollar, cash donations in brown paper bags to bribe eyewitnesses who were in a position to expose corruption, Howard Dean should not brag about the size of his war chest, because if all of his fans are correct, then the Internet has the power to take away that which it has so generously granted --the false perception that Howard Dean is John Kerry and John Edwards, rolled into a single candidate. Howard Dean claims that he is the only distinct candidate when John Edwards is the only Democratic candidate who has not spend his entire adult life in politics and John Kerry is the Democrat with the progressive record that Howard Dean is trying to hijack, through his so called ability to upstage the Democratic party.

The media loves to promote the wonderful delusion that Howard Dean has used the Internet to create his own party, his own hierarchy, his own lists, his own money, and his own organization, but that does not make any sense at all, Indeed, if that were true, Howard Dean would not even need the Democratic Party, he could simply use all his so called Internet resources to run as an Independent.

Howard Dean is on his way out because he has used the resume of Senator John Kerry to create the false perception that he deserves to be the Democratic front-runner, and that is clearly counterproductive because a hostile takeover demands more complicity than Howard Dean has managed to secure. Gore and Bradley are not enough.

Make no mistake about it, the Internet is not Dr. Frankenstein. The Republican and the Democratic parties still dominate and the Internet is merely the docile recipient of Republican and Democratic resources. If the Republicans, who are always obsessed by the effort to control the media, think that Dean's hostile takeover of the Democratic party will enhance George Bush's re-election prospects, they are correct. If they have filled Dean's head with the fantasy that he can use the Internet to subvert the will of the entire Democratic party, the arrogance is understood. But a democracy is not about creating your own party, it's about joining or leading the party, and Howard Dean is not even a player, in either capacity.

While governor of Vermont, Howard Dean accepted personal pay from special interests at least five times for speeches and also received at least $60,000 in checks and pledges from insurers who benefited from a state tax break,

In 1993, the two insurers sent the governor a gift, described only as a "package" after Dean met with them to discuss a bill that would provide new tax breaks and Dean signed the bill into law later that year. Is this the guy who uses the Internet, to by-pass special interest groups, or are special interest groups financing dean's campaign?

Despite the fact that Howard Dean spent 2 years trying to manipulate the people of Iowa, the Des Moines Register endorsed John Edwards and three other Iowa newspapers endorsed Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. Al Gore was successfully conned into thinking that Howard Dean is a Democrat like John Kerry and John Edwards, but the people of Iowa are evidently beginning to appreciate the difference.

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