Off the deep end

Well this didn't take long... (hat tips: Hugh Hewitt, Powerline, Curt Jester)

It seems old Deaney boy, and the Deaney Babies are wasting no time in ensuring a Republican majority for the forseeable future...

"The issue is not abortion," Dean told the closed-door fund-raiser. "The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do."
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And concluding his backyard speech with a litany of Democratic values, he added: "This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."

Pretty strong language, no? Well, not according to some of the far-left faithful in the crowd:

"I feel like he could have gone even stronger with his language," said Katherine Dessert, a student and preschool teacher. "I feel like he was a little bit too conservative. It didn't move me."

Hugh Hewitt has the simplest, and most telling comment about Dean's comments:

While political rhetoric can and indeed must become heated at times, the idea of tens of millions of Americans being "evil" is the sort of extreme, Michael Moore rhetoric which has taken the Democrats into the ditch and will keep them there. Will MSM follow up with the new DNC Chair and press him for details? Because Dean just labeled every Catholic Bishop and every major Evangelical figure "evil"

This seems to be a brilliant strategy to create even more Democratic losses. First go to UC-Berkley (that bastion of religious thought) to learn how to talk to religious voters, then attempt to sell a fake bill of goods, saying that the Democrats are "almost exactly" the party that upholds Catholic values, then insult most pro-life voters by saying that they're actually pro-choice, then, as evidenced by this article, label all Catholic and Evangelical leaders as evil.

Is there anybody out there that can possibly explain how this strategy is supposed to work? Or maybe explain why having Dean as the DNC chair is, by any stretch of the imagination, a good idea? This is practically a train wreck - I really don't care to watch this sort of self-destruction, but I can't look away.

Although, there has to be some way to wear that label from Howard Dean as a badge of pride or something..."Howard Dean thinks I'm evil - so I must be doing something right!" or the sort.