Dr. Dean comes South: Miss. is his 1st stop. - We won't concede the South & "The South will rise again, & when it does, it will have a D in its name."
Democrats need to preach core values like strong schools and health care to recapture the South, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Tuesday night in Jackson.
"The South will rise again, and when it does, it will have a D in its name," Dean told hundreds of cheering Democrats at a fund-raising event. "We are not going to concede the South.''
Dean's speech was more of a pep talk as he spoke of "Democratic values'' that included the need to balance the national budget, strengthen America's schools, press for an increase in the minimum wage and for a "sensible health-care plan to cover every single American.''
Dean said door-by-door and precinct-by-precinct the Democrats will take Mississippi back . . . .
"It is more blessed to give than receive,'' he said. "I didn't notice it in the Republican platform.''
(3-2-05, The Clarion-Ledger)
Praying for American troops and evoking biblical images of helping the needy, Howard Dean told Mississippi Democrats on Tuesday night that the national party won't give up on socially conservative states.
[Dean] is on a "red, white and blue" tour of states with long records of voting Republican.
Last week, he was in Kansas, which has voted Republican in every presidential race since 1964. Mississippi has gone Republican in every presidential race since 1980, and Democratic presidential nominees rarely campaign in the state. Dean said he'll go to Tennessee soon.
"You cannot trust Republicans with your taxpayer dollars."
He prayed for American troops, saying even those who had criticized the war in Iraq should support soldiers and their families. He also said the Democratic Party should reach out to evangelical Christians and the party has room for people with divergent views on abortion.
"I want to reach out to people who are worried about values," Dean said. "We are going to embrace pro-life Democrats because pro-life Democrats care about kids after they're born, not just before they're born."
(3-2-05 The SunHerald)
"The South will rise again, and when it does, it will have a D in its name," Dean told hundreds of cheering Democrats at a fund-raising event. "We are not going to concede the South.''
Dean's speech was more of a pep talk as he spoke of "Democratic values'' that included the need to balance the national budget, strengthen America's schools, press for an increase in the minimum wage and for a "sensible health-care plan to cover every single American.''
Dean said door-by-door and precinct-by-precinct the Democrats will take Mississippi back . . . .
"It is more blessed to give than receive,'' he said. "I didn't notice it in the Republican platform.''
(3-2-05, The Clarion-Ledger)
Praying for American troops and evoking biblical images of helping the needy, Howard Dean told Mississippi Democrats on Tuesday night that the national party won't give up on socially conservative states.
[Dean] is on a "red, white and blue" tour of states with long records of voting Republican.
Last week, he was in Kansas, which has voted Republican in every presidential race since 1964. Mississippi has gone Republican in every presidential race since 1980, and Democratic presidential nominees rarely campaign in the state. Dean said he'll go to Tennessee soon.
"You cannot trust Republicans with your taxpayer dollars."
He prayed for American troops, saying even those who had criticized the war in Iraq should support soldiers and their families. He also said the Democratic Party should reach out to evangelical Christians and the party has room for people with divergent views on abortion.
"I want to reach out to people who are worried about values," Dean said. "We are going to embrace pro-life Democrats because pro-life Democrats care about kids after they're born, not just before they're born."
(3-2-05 The SunHerald)
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