Why did progressives support Howard Dean??

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54. On LGBT equality Dean was a dishonest conservative and thus not at all to my liking

He went on TV, as Chairman of the Democratic Party, and claimed that our Party Platform had a plant against what he called 'gay marriage'. The interviewer doubted this because of course it was not true. Dean, Chairman Dean, insisted that our Party had created an anti equality plank and put it in our platform.
He was either unaware of the platform of the Party of which he was Chair or willing to simply tell lies about our Platform and our Party, lies which exploited an important civil rights issue in the most vicious way.
When I called his office about it, they acted as if it was hilarious. Goddamn liar. He refused to make an on air correction or to announce a correction.
He's one of the reasons I make no compromises on LGBT rights. He was fully willing to sell us all the way down his rhetorical river, casually, voluntarily and while the interviewer tried to correct him.
Blech.