“Evil.”

“Corrupt.”

“Brain-dead.”

Listen up, Republicans. That’s what Democratic NationalCommittee Chairman Howard Dean thinks of you.

According to recent media reports, the one-time Vermont governorhas screamed all that and more.

“Republicans never made an honest living in their lives,” Deantold a gathering of Democratic Party faithful in Washington. A fewdays later, he told a forum of journalists and minority leadersthat Republicans “are not very friendly to different kinds ofpeople. … It’s pretty much a white, Christian party.”

What is Dean thinking? His ranting, raving and railing againstthe rival party may be popular with the die-hard Democratic core,but, in reality, the divisiveness does no one any good.

Even some high-profile Democrats have found it increasinglydifficult to sit silently as the good doctor’s case offoot-in-mouth disease worsens.

Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.,both rumored to have presidential aspirations in 2008, have made itclear in recent days that Dean doesn’t speak for them. Even HouseMinority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., herself a firebrand attimes, said Dean’s “white, Christian” label of the GOP was “nothelpful.”

That’s an understatement. Deans words are nothing less than aprescription for further polarizing the country.

It’s obvious from the last presidential election and recentcongressional elections that more Americans, at this point in time,favor many of the Republicans’ ideas over the Democrats’. If Deanwishes to change this and again put his party in play, perhaps heshould concentrate more on spelling out his vision for theDemocratic Party and for America and less on his incessantplayground name-calling.