Howard Dean Accidentally Calls the Republican Party the "White" Party

[babsbunny]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/howard-dean-acc.html


Political Punch

Howard Dean Accidentally Calls the Republican Party the "White" Party

August 16, 2008 12:20 PM

In an interview with National Public Radio on Friday, Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, referred to the Republican Party as the white party, seemingly accidental.

"If you look at folks of color, even women, they're more successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the Republican Party," Dean said, chuckling, "because we just give more opportunity to folks who are hard-working people who are immigrants and come from members of minority groups."

Listen to it HERE.

[isentropic]

1. He obviously forgot about

http://www.nbra.info/

[Hope And Change]

2. From the article...

UPDATE: DNC spox Stacie Paxton notes that Chairman Dean "misspoke and corrected himself immediately.” She also provides the full exchange:

NPR: Another bit of news that caught our eyes this week, the U.S. Census Department released a report projecting that whites will become a minority in the US by the year 2042, that’s about 8 years earlier than expected. How do you think it would affect your approach to building the Democratic Party? You famously declared that Democrats should pursue voters who had confederate flags in their cars, meaning that Democrats should continue to court culturally conservative southern whites. Do these new numbers suggest that perhaps that strategy doesn’t really make sense?

Dean: I think we should court all voters and we haven’t courted Southern conservative working class folks and we need to do that. But you know our Party has been a no majority party for a long time. The fact is that the Democratic Party is made up of lots of different people and we’re all minorities in our party. That’s the way it’s been for a long, long time. We’re the party of opportunity. The demographic trends favor the Democrats because we are an inclusive, accepting party. And if you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white, excuse me, than in the Republican Party because we just give more opportunity to folks who are hardworking people who are immigrants and come from members of minority groups.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. The Republicans are going to die out soon.

I mean, as a national party. With the west becoming more and more progressive, that'll leave only the south as their stronghold, which won't be enough to win any election.

Most of the growth is coming from the west, states where Republicans are losing their grip. Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and California. If these states continue to grow, all the electoral votes will be out here, with a few in the south, as well.

[monmouth]

4. Weren't Repubs originally the "Whig" party? We all know how that went...n/t

[Occam Bandage]

6. No.

[aquart]

5. Accident?

And it's not like the Republicans aren't proud of it.