You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.
Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer
Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.
When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.
Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.
Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.
Straw purchasing is illegal.
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
I cannot go on. . . . All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.
A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.
We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.
I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw.
A stranger stabs you in the front; a friend stabs you in the back; a boyfriend stabs you in the heart, but best friends only poke each other with straws
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
