Look how eager all you REPUBLICANS were to jump on Howard Dean - and you say we are rabid in our hatred of the evil W.
Well well well, it looks like The Right Wing was caught in a typical REPUBLICAN distortion of the truth...it seems that over 300 people were in attendance at this fundraiser, full story below:
By Lynn Bartels, Rocky Mountain News
July 15, 2005
Last year, Iowa.
This year, Denver.
If Howard Dean is there, Joel Weierman wants to help.
The Boulder resident, 32 and a self-confessed "die-hard Deaniac," shelled out $100 Thursday to hear the former presidential candidate spell out his vision for leading the Democratic National Committee.
Dean got big laughs and lots of applause at the Oxford Hotel as he ribbed President Bush and the three Rs: Republicans, Rove and Rush:
• "Focus on the Family? What focus on the family? If you want to focus on the family, how about raising minimum wage?"
• "No Child Left Behind ought to be kicked in the behind."
• "I'm not going to be lectured about moral values by Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and James Dobson - not going to happen."
"Thank you," Arapahoe County resident Laure Levin told Dean afterward. "I'm ready to hit the streets again."
"He was great," said Weierman, who admitted he was crushed last year when Dean lost the Iowa primary to John Kerry.
Dean came to Colorado on Thursday for a fundraiser that attracted more than 300 people.
"If we are willing to stand up for what we believe in, if we set aside this idea that we ought to be like the Republicans in order to win . . . then I promise you we will take this country back," Dean said.
The state Republican Party issued a statement saying Dean came to "spew lies and hate speech."
Outside the Oxford, protesters held signs of aborted fetuses.
Inside the Denver landmark, Dean stressed that he doesn't know anybody who is pro-abortion, but he knows plenty of people who believe women should get to "make up their own minds."
Dean talked about the party's strategy for turning Colorado from "purple to blue."
"All by yourself, you turned it from red to purple last time around," he said, referring to the Democrats' stunning victories, winning a U.S. Senate seat and taking back the legislature for the first time since 1960. He charged that Republicans have prospered by stirring up fears about quotas and gays, and he predicted the next hot-button issue for the GOP would be immigration.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/election/article/0,1299,DRMN_36_3928918,00.html
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