Howard Dean campaigns in Tallahassee

Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean told a Tallahassee audience today that southerners have to quit basing their votes on "race, guns, God and gays."

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Dean said he hopes to reassemble a coalition of conservative southern voters like President Franklin Roosevelt had in the "solid South" 70 years ago.

Yeah, Howard. That's just the way to start turning around the polls down here in Hicksville.

Damn Yankee.

UPDATE: This just struck me as odd. Isn't Dean's platform partially based on promotion of minorities, gun control, and gay rights? Sort of a case of the pot saying "I'm a lying jackass and you should vote for me as anything else will just show that you're ignunt hicks." calling the kettle black.

UPDATE2: Sure enough, on Dean's own website we find that he has policy statements about race, guns and gays. Nothing really specific about God but there's a good bit of brimstone in the dozens of search results for 'religious'. So was Dean telling us Southerners to not consider him as a candidate then? Or just to ignore his issues?

(First heard at Day by Day, link found at Instapundit)