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Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean revved up a crowd of Madison party faithfuls Tuesday, saying there is �no future� for young people in the Republican Party.
In his speech to a group of Democratic leaders and volunteers that was thin on students, Dean stressed the power of voters younger than 30 to secure a future of Democratic government leadership.
Dean said his own generation, though active in civil rights, still has consistently demonstrated disparities between ethnic groups on voter turnout, which has shaped Democratic strategy for years.
�If you�re under 30 in this country, there is no difference, whether you are black, brown or white, in terms of the turnout percentage in your generation,� Dean said. �That is, this generation sees themselves as a multicultural generation.�
He added this multicultural self-identification draws younger voters to the Democratic ballot.
�When you look at the candidates on our side who stood up and debated, people under 30 � looked at that lineup of our candidates and said, �That looks like us in 20 years,�� Dean said. He added when those young people looked at the Republican candidates, they saw �1950s television.�
Dean said that the Republican Party has scapegoated every ethnic group and therefore can�t create a multicultural identity and reach younger voters.
�They can�t become more diverse,� Dean said. �Who in their right mind, if they were African American or Hispanic or Asian American, if they were gay or lesbian, would join the Republican Party?�
University of Wisconsin College Republicans Chair Sara Mikolajczak found Dean�s comments frustrating, ridiculous and offensive.
�It�s not true at all,� Mikolajczak said. �To say the Republican Party has no grasp of multicultural society is complete and total BS, for lack of a better term. We have people in the CRs who come from all different multicultural backgrounds.�
Mikolajczak said the ethnic identities of presidential candidates alone don�t reflect the entire character of a party.
�If Hillary wins the nomination, that doesn�t mean the Democratic Party is solely about women. If Barack Obama wins, it doesn�t mean they�re solely about black men,� she said.
UW Students for Obama Vice Chair Maggie Raiken said she thought Dean�s comment on the younger generation being the multicultural generation was �amazing,� particularly in the context of a speech Sen. Barack Obama made last week on race in America. Obama�s speech, titled �A More Perfect Union,� addressed race in the United States in the context of a scandal involving statements by his former pastor that some have called racist.
Raiken blamed the �sparse� student turnout on the $15 ticket price and the venue�s distance from campus.
Dean also outlined neighborhood leadership campaign tactics that have gained momentum in recent elections.
�The truth is that you as an individual in your neighborhoods are far more powerful than Rush Limbaugh and Bill O�Reilly and Michael Savage and the merchants of hate right-wing radio,� Dean said.
He urged attendees to participate in these grassroots-level programs, highlighting the flexibility and opportunity customization they give volunteers.
�You get to shape the campaign, but in return, we need you to talk to people,� Dean said. �That is what�s going to win this election.�
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Study after study show that Americans tend to be more conservative than their older peers. To be sure, Senator Obama is doing a good job motivating younger voters with a message of change, but what will happen when they find out how liberal he truly is?
Republicans support race-blind policies that treat people as humans, not colors of a crayon. If that’s not the opposite of racism, I don’t know what is.
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Did he give his Dean Yell?
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Sara, the multiculturality of your party: suburban and rural.
Who said you don’t undertand?
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Once again, the always classy Ms. Mikolajczak can’t put a sentence together without completely misrepresenting the College Republicans. “Complete and total BS?” Now there’s some tact. Good work CRs. If your leader is any indication of what the rest of you are like - Howard Dean was right. You really have no future.
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but what will happen when they find out how liberal he truly is?
I think people know that about Obama. Its not like he hides it
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really? have you taken a poli sci class? according to the entire study of politics in america bush should have lost the last election and democrats should be killing McCain this time around and they are doing squat. young democrats have no future b/c the moraless culture of their party prevent them from winning the easiest elections in reccent times.
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We’re gonna win New Hampshire…pyahhhhhhhhhhh!
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“this generation sees themselves as a multicultural generation”
That multicultural stuff doesn’t seem to be working out so well for Europe, but who knows, maybe it will work out differently in the USA.
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I’d like to see those studies. Considering that most kids are still liberal or further left, I think you’re just trying to justify your own conservatism.
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Who would have thought that the grand OLD party would not appeal to the youth with a 72-year-old candidate?
Howard Dean has to do a better job convincing us that he’s not a part of the military industrial complex. So far, both parties are complicit. How much longer will we take it?
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uh, no. sara’s right. it is bs. props to her for being bold enough to call him on his shit.
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she should resign. she’s right. but she should say it better.
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great. so youths (radical muslims, illegals, felons, french ppl, farrakhan, degenerates, and marxists, ppl without hs diplomas) vote left. and the youth changes as they actually read what each party really means.(and when they pay taxes for the first time) good stuff… keep having one baby if any liberals and see what happens.
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Sara was there to make a comment, she DID make it, and sge was clear and succinct in doing so. I will concede that using the term “BS” is a little rough-edged, but it’s not as coarse as the actual phrase. Further, her reflexive “back at you” comments about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were spot-on. And finally, Sara didn’t impugn the man, merely his statements. That’s more than “Anonymous (March 26, 2008 @ 7:29am” can say for itself.
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Sara is exactly right that Mr. Dean�s remarks were not true at all. Republicans already have wonderful Asian, African and Hispanic Americans in leadership across the country. And, regarding Mr. Dean�s question about �who� in their right mind, among youth of multicultural identity, would want to join the Republican Party? Answer: After all their hard work at college to build for their future, once college students have their degrees and enter the workforce, �Red or Yellow, Black or White,� everyone wants to keep more of their pay checks. That�s when they�ll become Republicans. Younger workers today are more familiar with investments than previous generations. Through 401(k) plans offered by employers across the nation, they know the power of compound interest as they watch their contributions to these accounts grow steadily over time. Even younger workers entering the trades rather than college bound, have 401 (k) plans. They all are going to want American companies to do well as they watch their personal accounts grow. Democrats can fool some of the people, some of the time, but personal success knows no color or life style. Republican ideas and know how are the future!
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Let’s see, the present Prez has has more minority groups at the highest Cabinet level posts- Powell, Rice etc- than BillHILL joint presidency ever had, the Republican party was formed to Abolish slavery, they passed the Civil Rights legislation in the 18 and 1960’s while the “Conscience of the Senate” Sen. Byrd of W Virginia and Klan Kleagle until 1948 staged the longest filabuster against the 1964-65 Civil rights act and Al Gore’s Dad voted against it as did all the southern Democrats…..Mr EEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAWWWWWWW Dean is in fact full of and still shoveling BS.
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Why is everything in the Democratic Party about race? To them, “diversity” means “a lot of minorities and women.” To the Republican Party, “diversity” means REAL diversity of thought, backgrounds, morality, et cetera.
This is why the Democratic Presidential Primaries involve candidates that all agree on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE. Oh, but they have men and women, blacks and whites, hispanics and non-hispanics, and those who believe they’ve seen UFOs and those that don’t. Meanwhile, the Republican Presidential Primaries include actual diversity of thought: pro-choice and pro-life, pro-war and anti-war, pro-gay marriage bans and against, et cetera.
The future is about people who can actually judge people on their character, and by the issues that they represent. Not about people who are absolutely fixated and obsessed with race.
The Democratic Party is the party of slavery, the party of segregation, the party of the past. It is their future that is bleak, not the Republicans.
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7:29 - WHat about the complete lack of class shown by Mr. Dean? To say that “who in their right mind” would be a Republican if they are a minority is horribly insulting and arrogant. It is total BS. In essence Dean said that Colin Powell, Secretary Rice, Mel Martinez, Bobby Jindal, JC Watts, etc are all crazy because they are republicans.
Dean - and the DNC leadership - are nothing more than condescending, arrogant jackasses. Democrats should be ashamed of their Chairman.
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What’s wrong with Sara’s response? Dean delivered a number of race baiting, offensive, and false comments and she just called a spade a spade…truth hurts, doesn’t it? “BS” is actually kinder than how I would have responded. Who the hell is he to tell me my future is bleak because I support life, personal accountability, and less government in my life. Certainly not “President Dean”…oh wait, he couldn’t even win the nomination of the party he is now leading…loser.
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7:29 - Sometimes statements call for blunt honesty not “tact.”
Dean insulted all Republicans and basically labeled them as racists and bigots. That doesn’t exactly call for a polite response. Sara has gone out of her way to be polite to Democrats on this campus several times and yet she is routinely attacked as a hack or as mean-spirited. I for one am glad she called this one as it is.
Dean owes republicans - especially minority republicans an apology.
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“…Dean said. �Who in their right mind, if they were African American or Hispanic or Asian American, if they were gay or lesbian, would join the Republican Party?�
Ask Condoleezza Rice…. she’s certainly a far more accomplished and cordial person that Mr. “EEEAAAAAAAHHHHH” Dean. Most assuredly, she is in her ‘right mind’ also, double entendre intended.
As for Mr. Barack Hussein Obama’s vaunted speech trying to whitewash the blatantly racist comments made by his pastor and ‘spiritual guide’ of 20 years, you can put lipstick on a pig….. but it is still a pig. His pastors’ racist sermons should have stimulated Mr. Obama, had he been in his right mind, to immediately leave that church in disgust.
As a ‘typical white person’, I deeply resent Mr. Obama’s characterization that, like his grandma, have an adverse reaction to blacks ‘bred into me’. That is also racist commentary, by any standard.
M. L. King had far more in common with todays multicultural Republicans than he could possibly have with todays race baiting Democrats, when he uttered these immortal words: “I have a Dream, that one day my little children may be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.”
We do not judge Mr. Obama, his minister, or Mr. Dean by the color of their skins. We judge them by the content of their characters…. and find them unacceptable.
Invictus Maneo
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Sara spoke well and correctly by calling a spade a spade. The Dems don’t like it when we speak truth, since they attack and accuse so quickly. The College Republicans are the voice of truth in the political climate of the UW. I support Sara and the CRs for their courage.
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“I’d like to see those studies. Considering that most kids are still liberal or further left, I think you’re just trying to justify your own conservatism.”
You must be from Madison and not have have traveled much in your life. Other people who have been outside of Madison’s “bubble” can see for themselves that it’s true and don’t even need to ask for proof, although I’m sure it’s out there.
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Dean sure is full of hate. As a Republican who happens to be Native American I find his comments laughable. A political party stands for principles not a specific mix of races.
As someone who favors a strong national defense, limited government, lower tax rates, better economic growth and equality for everyone the party that best represents my interests is the Republican Party.
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What “studies” are the previous poster(s) referring to? Sounds like typical neocon smoke and mirrors: dump some freshly unverified “evidence” and “studies” that support unsubstantiated facts about what Americans do and don’t believe into a nice, steamy package which can then be flung at the nearest convenient fan. Throw in lots of straw man attacks on “liberalism” (those damn libruls, it’s all Clinton’s fault!) and some “reverse racism” whining to taste.