{"id":5889,"date":"2005-06-04T14:46:52","date_gmt":"2005-06-04T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/06\/04\/howard-dean-explained\/"},"modified":"2005-06-04T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2005-06-04T19:46:52","slug":"howard-dean-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/06\/howard-dean-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Dean Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">This morning&#8217;s NPR Morning Edition features an interview with Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean, who says he wants to reclaim evangelicals and Roman Catholics for the Democratic Party. This is possible, he says, by emphasizing that the Democratic Party is not the party of gay marriage or abortion. When pressed on this, Dean admits he doesn&#8217;t want to restrict abortion or homosexual liberationism. Instead, he wants to show evangelicals and Catholics that the Party &quot;has a soul&quot; and respects the values of &quot;people of faith.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">In fact, Dean argues, the Democratic Party actually resonates with evangelical values because it cares for those who are &quot;left behind.&quot; [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/merecomments.typepad.com\/merecomments\/2005\/06\/evangelicals_an.html\">Mere Comments<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">With good ole Howard talking about how it &quot;hates Republicans and everything they stand for&quot; and recently that many Republicans &#8216;have never made an honest living&#8217; you can understand why Republicans call him the &quot;gift that keeps on giving.&quot; Boy is the pro-abortion PAC Emily&#8217;s List confused in giving millions of dollars to the party that isn&#8217;t about abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">I think the below is the only thing that can fully explain Howard Dean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/rovedean.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"163\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s NPR Morning Edition features an interview with Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean, who says he wants to reclaim evangelicals and Roman Catholics for the Democratic Party. This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}