Dr. Demented Rides Again

It's hard to imagine how much nicer a gift the DNC could have presented to Republicans than Howard Dean as their Chairman. Speaking to the "Take Back America" conference yesterday, Our Hero had this to say:

He wondered who could expect voters to work all day and then stand in line for eight hours to vote. "Well, Republicans, I guess, can do that because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives," he said, drawing some surprised "oohs" from his audience.

Well well well. Just when you think he couldn't say anything dumber than what has already dropped from his lips, along comes this gem. His entire speech was full of, shall we say, fact-challenged statements. See if you can figure this one out:

It wasn't enough for the president to try to wreck the public pension system that we had. It wasn't enough for him to try to turn over Social Security to the same people who brought us Enron, his good friends and political contributors.

How, exactly, is Bush's plan going to do that? Anybody want to give that a shot? Dean regularly displays his ignorance on the issues he is trying to address. Powerline has a good roundup of many of Dean's stupid statements yesterday. Trying to keep track of those is beginning to be quite a chore. Perhaps we should start a pool, taking estimates on how long the Democrats will keep Dr. Demented as their "leader." Considering his fundraising performance to date and comments such as the above, I personally don't think he will last until the end of 2005.

JAS ADDS: I love this observation from Brother Hinderaker vis-a-vie the "Social Security to Enron" belch:

And, by the way, Dean is a multimillionaire, mainly due to inherited wealth. Where do you think he keeps his own money? Under the mattress?

Kinda captures Donk hypocrisy in a nutshell, doesn't it?

Incidentally, I think how long Chairman How lasts will be a function of how long it will take his fundraising incompetence to overwhelm his panache for left-wing red meat in the eyes of Party bigwigs. And given how over the cliff that whole bunch is these days, that really is anybody's guest.

Lastly, and I hope Jen doesn't mind, but I edited "Dr. Doofus" to "Dr. Demented," as the ex-Vermont guv is affectionately known in my posts. I did this only to avoid confusion with the Senate Majority Leader. Hope that clears things up.