Alvin Greene Nomination 'Breaks My Heart': DSCC Director

Most voters judge politicians by their personalities and mistakenly assume politicians' ideological positions for their own when they've decided they personally like the politician. That's certainly true of Howard Dean. He's a nice guy, but he's not a liberal and definitely not married to what I would say are sacrosanct Democratic Party positions, like pro-choice and public health care.



Just about all professional Democratic politicians want to make the Democratic party hospitable to anti-choice people, as noted in this article from 12/04 -

http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/washington/wnb121504.htm



The only way to do that is for the party to not take a stance on abortion, to remove any reference to 'choice'. During Dean's tenure as chairman of the DNC, he indicated in several interviews that the intent was to move the DemocraticParty from referring to abortion at all in its platform. Here's one of those interviews, from 11/1/05:



Video - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/9882255#9882255

Transcript - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9883824/



Dems May Waver on Choice, Repro Rights 01/14/05 http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2144/context/archive



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