Phil Brennan
Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005

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  He is no shrinking violet. Even if he wanted to, he could never accept the role of the man behind the screen pulling the strings and keeping the machine well oiled while others stood out front peddling the NSDAP's message.

Think about it. Dean is a media personality - the boys and girls in the mainstream media can't get enough of him. Just about every time he opens his mouth he makes news that ricochets around the nation's news organizations, killing any thought that the man is a political or ideological "moderate"(i.e., "I hate Republicans.").

Contrast Dean with the face and voice of the NSDAP the party insists will be front and center: Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, two of the least exciting personalities on the political stage today. Writing of their televised response to the president's State of the Union address, Peggy Noonan wrote of Reid that he "looks and talks like a small-town undertaker whom you want to trust but wonder about, especially when he says the deceased would love the brass handles."

As for Nancy Pelosi, Noonan wrote that she "continues to look startled, even alarmed, her comments are predictable and pedestrian. ... Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi had little to say. They made Important Sounds. Neither seemed sincere or serious. ..."

Making "Important Sounds" won't cut it with the media - they want red meat, and they know Howard Dean is the butcher who will supply it on a regular basis. Other than Teddy Kennedy, who appears to have gone all the way around the bend, Dean is the screamer the mainstream media are going to focus on.

He is, like Leon Trotsky, a firebrand.

Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein) made his name putting together the murderous gang of thugs known as the Red Army; Dean gained a lot of notoriety early on organizing the unruly children's crusade known as the Deaniacs, who followed this pied piper into the red-state sea, where their hopes and dreams and fantasies drowned.

And like Trotsky, he is also an ardent socialist who, no matter what his supporters allege, looks always to the left. He is no centrist. Nor is his party centrist - it is a socialist party through and through, and Howard Dean fits that party like a glove.

Although brilliant and articulate, he is also a loose cannon, capable of firing leftist rhetoric like grapeshot and garnering huge coverage from the media as a result.

Like others in the NSDAP, Dean is making noise about the need for his party to have a message, to stand for something other than obstructing the president and gutting his policies. The fact of the matter is, that's exactly what they stand for. They have nothing to offer but old and tired slogans that rotate around the theme that the Republicans are the party of the rich and the Democrats are the party of the "common man." (A term of derision, when you get right down to it; who wants to be called "common"? Americans are the most uncommon human beings in history.)

The rhetoric may be altered from time to time, but the message remains the same. And Howard Dean is the ideal messenger. His loud voice will be heard drowning out the whimpers of the congressional leadership supposedly charged with setting NSDAP policy.

The NSDAP is aghast at the thought that the rickety old Social Security system is in crisis mode and must be reformed now before it begins to crumble in a mere 13 years. They are outraged by the very idea that workers - those common folk they claim to worship and adore - should have any say in managing a small part of their own money. Instead they assail the idea of personal savings accounts as an underhanded attempt to privatize the Social Security system.

They don't tell you that they have always seen the so-called trust fund as their own personal piggy bank, to be looted annually to pay for their socialist schemes and appear to do so without raising taxes and burdening the American people with the cost. (Yeah, I know, the GOP did it too, but where do you think they learned how it's done?)

That's why they go bonkers when anybody tries to meddle with their scam by attempting to reform it and put it on a sound fiscal basis.

On the war in Iraq, many NSDAP members in and out of Congress, at least some extent, support the president. Their voices will be drowned out by Howard Dean, as vocal and committed foe of that war as is poor old Teddy Kennedy.

Whose voice will get the larger audience in the media on this issue - Harry Reid's, Peggy Noonan's "small town undertaker," or Howard Dean's? Like it or no, Dean's anti-war position will be the NSDAP's public position.

An issue to watch: confirmation of the president's judicial nominees. Reid may be the NSDAP's Capitol Hill voice, but don't expect Howard Dean to shrink into the background on this red-hot issue. Ten to one he'll drown out any noise from Capitol Hill. The media have to play him up - they can't help themselves.

Republicans are said to be absolutely giddy over Dean's election to the party chairmanship, and some have warned them that he could be a formidable foe if he moderates his Trotskyite positions and, like Hillary Clinton, appears to move a bit rightward.

They needn't worry. He won't. He can't help himself.

Like the controlling wing of the NSDAP, he is firmly wedded to the failed leftist agenda. And he knows that if he really did move even slightly to the right of Leon Trotsky, in a literal sense he'd meet the same fate as Trotsky, who Stalin had stabbed to death with an ice pick on August 21, 1940, for his apostasy.

The NSDAP abhors apostasy and punishes apostates. Remember what happened to late Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey, a Democrat who dared to be pro-life and was banished into the political wilderness for his apostasy.

Welcome back, Leon Trotsky.

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Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.

He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com

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