The right wing blogosphere has been giving Putin sloppy wet kisses lately, talking about how he's such a strong leader and hates teh gayz and has strong morals and is so much better than Obama, so Dean has a point.
Similarly, I was around back in 1994 when the Far Right kept sending letters to the newspaper praising the government of Singapore for its caning of an American accused of vandalism. I always felt that if the right-wingers liked Singapore so much, they should be deported and sent to live there.
Yes. That was around the same time that a prominent Republican senator directly
threatened the President, in an interview. Contrary to what some prefer to believe, the insanity of the Republican party didn't just suddenly appear when Obama was elected.