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"We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on," Dean told a homosexual group in West Hollywood in mid-April. "This is going to be an issue in 2006, and it's going to be an issue in 2008. Because we're going to have an ad with a picture of Tom DeLay saying, 'Do you want this guy to decide whether you die or not? Or is that going to be up to your loved ones?'"

Dean's 100 days could be a googol of days and Republicans could try cruelly to save the lives of a million disabled women, but he won't win moral value hearts and minds with talk like that.

There have been other verbal calumnies that cannot be correctly identified as "gaffes" because they were not mistakes and are completely consistent with other samples of unvarnished Deanism. Dean recently stated House Majority Leader Tom DeLay should "go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence." And yet as a presidential candidate Dean had this to say about terror master Osama bin Laden:

It should be noted that Tom DeLay has not been convicted of -- or even charged with -- anything while Osama bin Laden boasts from his secret hideout of murdering 3,000 innocent Americans.

Dean has called Republicans "corrupt" and "brain dead" and has implied they are "evil." He endorsed a socialist for U.S. Senate in Vermont. He put on an improvisational comedy routine in which he pretended to be Rush Limbaugh snorting cocaine. He called black Republicans "hotel staff." He declared, "I hate Republicans and everything they stand for." He called Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) a "liar." And he said Republicans -- all Republicans, not just the office holders -- "are mean, they are not nice people."

Whether you call him doctor, Governor, Chairman, or reverend, Howard Dean is an absolute scream.

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