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[Khephra]

This Deanie is in the middle of Rall's "To Afghanistan and Back" right now.

I betcha mean because of this article?

LOVE ME, I'M (NOT REALLY) A LIBERAL

Liberal Democrats Project Their Desires onto Howard Dean

http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/?uc_full_date=20030812

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Well, funny thing about that article is that it came out a week after this one that the Anti-Deanies never mention:

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RALL'S RULE OF IDEOLOGICAL BALANCE

NEW YORK--Leftist or centrist? That's the big question facing Democrats in the run-up to next year's primaries. "The way to beat George Bush is not to be like him," declares former Vermont governor Howard Dean, whose feisty antiwar rhetoric has caught fire among liberals and made him the current frontrunner for the nomination. Seizing the centrist standard of the Clintonites, Senator Joe Lieberman warns that a liberal standard-bearer like Dean "could lead the Democratic Party into the political wilderness for a long time to come. It could be, really, a ticket to nowhere."
Who's right?

" major goal is to beat George W. Bush," says Dick Bennett of the American Research Group, whose latest poll shows a third of Democrats undecided in evaluating the nine declared hopefuls. Among the other two-thirds, Dean leads, followed by liberal Sen. John Kerry, Lieberman and Rep. Dick Gephardt.

Turning left means disaster, argues the centrist Democratic Leadership Council: they say Dean, who opposes the Iraq war, would be 2004's George McGovern. When DLC poster boy Bill Clinton co-opted GOP platform planks like welfare reform and deficit reduction in 1992, he defeated the first President Bush. "The Democratic Party has an important choice to make: Do we want to vent or do we want to govern?" asks DLC chairman Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana. "The administration is being run by the far right. The Democratic Party is being taken over by the far left."

History suggests that that may be a good thing.

more............

http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/?uc_full_date=20030805