Wow, he’s considered a kook????

Because of the “scream”???

Jesus, no wonder the right can’t be taken seriously. If they want to equate Howard Dean with Michele Batshitcrazy Bachman (or whatever the hell that woman’s name from Minnesota is) then they have no sense of proportion at all.

You used the phrase, “Both side have their kooks.” I often object to people saying this because it implies that “our kooks” balance “their kooks.”

Uh, I don’t know what “balance” means, but there are certainly nutty, violent leftists who do really stupid shit. Acknowledging the existence of those extremists is not making a statement about their relative strength or numbers.

The key point I made, however, is that the right’s kooks are embraced, not shunned, by the establishment, giving them a great deal more power on their side of the fence.

Gov. John Dean??

Help me out with my memory, because the only John Dean I’m recalling was a Republican in the Nixon administration. (or at least I think there was John Dean mixed up in that mess known as Watergate, although that was a long time ago and I might be misremembering that too).

Anyways, help me out. Who is Gov. John Dean?

When I ask who the Right folks are talking about, who fits into the “my kooks” side of things, it’s Michael Moore, Gov. John Dean, Rev Wright, to name a few. None of these people called out, “You lie!” to the president. None shot a doctor. None carried a gun to a political rally. None called the president a racist. None said in public that the president’s bill proposes death panels. None strangled a census worker. None called for nullification and succession.

I don’t think our “kooks” measure up to the heinous actions of the right and THEREFORE I object to the “gimmee,” “throw away,” “even things up” phrase, “Both side have their kooks.”

And, I hear it too often from GOP friends excusing the crazies…TOO OFTEN!