A day after Dean questioned Ashcroft's patriotism, DeLay, a Republican lawmaker from Sugar Land, fired off a statement calling the former Vermont governor a "a cruel and extremist demagogue.""If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democratic crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker," DeLay said in a reference to President Reagan's landslide victory over Walter Mondale.
Michael looked up the definition of the word "demagogue" in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:
1 : a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power 2 : a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times
'Nuff said.
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