Health Care: ''Dean is right. This is a moral issue.''

"You know why we're going to win?" Dean asked. "Because values matter." It was the applause line of the night, just what Democrats gathered for a fund-raiser at the Marriott wanted to hear. Democratic values are fine, he says. What's needed is the conviction to stick by them, and a willingness to butt heads with Republicans. "We've allowed ourselves to be put on the defensive," he said in an interview before Monday's fund-raiser. "They (Republicans) are obsessed with abortion and homosexuality, but they don't do anything to help poor people. We have a president who is cutting food stamps, cutting health care, cutting food to hungry children around the world -- all for the sake of a $70 billion tax cut for the wealthiest."-Howard Dean, in an interview with the Star-Ledger (NJ) during his recent trip to New Jersey. Pay attention to Dean's choice of messages.