News Flash: Dean’s Not A Liberal!
See Katherine Seelye’s article in the Times.
Mainly because of his outspoken opposition to the war and his anti-Washington views, Howard Dean, back when he was the front-runner, was branded by the SCLM as “the candidate too liberal to be elected.” It was always a ridiculous charge. Not only does Dean not have 20 years of recorded votes on major national policy issues like Kerry does, he simply was known as a centrist, fiscally conservative during his gubernatorial reign in Vermont. He may have electability problems versus W, namely, how to convince a country that the governor of the second-smallest state in the union should replace a president during wartime, but the Republicans won’t get very far depicting Dr. Dean as an out-of-step liberal. Alas, now that the Times has caught on, it may be too late.
Mainly because of his outspoken opposition to the war and his anti-Washington views, Howard Dean, back when he was the front-runner, was branded by the SCLM as “the candidate too liberal to be elected.” It was always a ridiculous charge. Not only does Dean not have 20 years of recorded votes on major national policy issues like Kerry does, he simply was known as a centrist, fiscally conservative during his gubernatorial reign in Vermont. He may have electability problems versus W, namely, how to convince a country that the governor of the second-smallest state in the union should replace a president during wartime, but the Republicans won’t get very far depicting Dr. Dean as an out-of-step liberal. Alas, now that the Times has caught on, it may be too late.
posted by JFH @ 10:45 PM
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