Political Humor | Phony Backlash to Dean’s Comments

According to the LA Times article by Richard Simon, Times Staff writer
Dean’s Zeal Is Looking Like Zealotry, Some Fear:

“Dean’s Zeal Is Looking Like Zealotry, Some Fear
# Tone down the rhetoric, Democrats tell their leader after his recent inflammatory remarks.
When Howard Dean was chosen to head their party, Democrats looked forward to the benefits of his bristling energy and zest for political combat. But at a private meeting Thursday on Capitol Hill, a number of worried Senate Democrats warned Dean that he had been going overboard and needed to choose his words more carefully. “

There’s plenty more phony criticism of Chairman Dean, but the gist of it will suffice to make my point.
The only reason any Democrats are telling Howard Dean to cool it, is because he is making the Democrats into a laughingstock. It’s not because what he is saying is outlandish, (although it is) but because they are all being ridiculed for it. If you look closely enough, you will find that the problem is not Dean’s message, but his delivery.

The Democrats are getting really angry, because they think Dean is right on the money with his comments, and he’s being laughed at and mocked for it. Don’t fall for the idea that they think what he is saying is too extreme. They don’t want him to tone down the rhetoric, they want him to tone down himself. They all agree with the message. They’d just like a better messenger.