Howard Dean on the "Tolerance" Front

Howard Dean took a little trip to Kansas (wait, did I mean Iowa?).

In a tolerant speech to promote tolerance where the intolerant seem more intolerant to those who promote tolerance, Howard Dean, hot on the heels of his appointment to DNC chair, comes out of the box with this:

LJWorld.com: "'Moderate Republicans can't stand these people (conservatives), because they're intolerant. They don't think tolerance is a virtue,' Dean said, adding: 'I'm not going to have these right-wingers throw away our right to be tolerant.'"

Ahhhhh! Feel the love *swoon*!

And then, to put a nice cherry on top of the sundae. . .

And concluding his backyard speech with a litany of Democratic values, he added: "This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."

Proving which man in the state had the better political instincts, Derrick Sontag, Executive Director of the Kansas Republican Party had this to say.

"My immediate reaction to that whole dialogue is, it's full of hatred," Sontag said. "The Democratic Party has elected a leader that's full of hatred."