Democrats need to reach out to voters who oppose abortion rights and promote candidates who share that view, the head of the party said Friday.
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told a group of college Democrats that their party has to change its approach in the debate over abortion.
"I think we need to talk about this issue differently," said Dean. "The Republicans have painted us as a pro-abortion party. I don't know anybody in America who is pro-abortion."
Dean's approach echoed similar arguments advanced in recent months by former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.
"We do have to have a big tent. I do think we need to welcome pro-life Democrats into this party," said Dean.
Still, he added, "I think that we must be absolutely firm in being the party of individual freedom and personal freedom, which means that in the end the government doesn't get to decide, we do."
The effort to attract anti-abortion voters comes as Senate Democrats are preparing for confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Roberts' views on abortion are already being intensely scrutinized.
Dean did not mention the looming confirmation hearings.
To quote a rabid psycho abortionist lib, Rosie O'Donnell, Howeird is "DELUSIONAL!"
Tell me, who are the biggest contributors to the DNC, aside from George Soros? Yep, NARAL, NOW, Planned Parenthood. No, they are not the party of abortion....
Dea says this even while the LA Times acts as a mouthpiece for the media by condemning Roberts for having a wife who is pro-life....
Oh, and that one prolife Democrat is still waiting to speak at the National Convention....
Sounds not only delusional, but rather hypocritical, to me....
I think this quote says it best:
Kevin Madden said, "Howard Dean's rants are a perfect example of why the American people have lost faith in the national Democratic party."
Indeed!
