Time for Howard Dean to Step Down - He Has Lost Even His Political Base - Gay democrat Voters
By PETER ROSENSTEIN
Thursday, May 25, 2006
I HAVE BEEN a Democratic Party activist since I was 12 and handed out fliers in my New York neighborhood for John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign. I have always supported Democrats because I believe they have stood up for workers, for the human and civil rights of all people, and for a set of values I share.
Howard Dean is eroding my belief — not in the Democratic Party but in the ability of the Democratic National Committee to speak for the party. I long ago stopped contributing to the DNC, way back when I worried some of my money might go the re-election of Sam Nunn, the former senator from Georgia who came up with “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
But I give as generously as I can to individual Democrats because I still believe that they are the best hope to see our nation lives up to its ideals.
I was not a Howard Dean supporter in the presidential primaries and didn’t support his candidacy for party chair either. I’ve always been suspicious of his pandering to gay voters when he thought he needed us. It is clear now that he thinks we are a burden on the Democratic Party, and he is moving away from us as fast as he thinks he can get away with it.
To do so is wrong strategically and a betrayal of the party’s ideals. People don’t want wishy-washy statements — they want clear position statements from their politicians and their parties. That is what wins supporters and elections.
So Howard Dean must go.
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