Dean the Dream - WSJ editorial

[question everything]

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Mr. Dean's personal candidacy foundered, famously, after a series of undisciplined public remarks. But it's also true that his collapse came only after Mr. Kerry and others had moved sharply enough in Mr. Dean's direction that there wasn't much policy difference left.
Mr. Kerry has now adopted 90% of the Dean agenda and about 70% of his attitude. The Massachusetts Senator is winning the bulk of Democratic and liberal votes, as the exit polls show he did in Wisconsin on Tuesday, while Mr. Edwards pulls in more Republicans and independents.

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Yet we can't help but wonder if all of this liberal anger and intensity won't boomerang in the end. The Dean movement has clearly erased all of the New Democratic moderation that Bill Clinton made famous in the 1990s. On trade, taxes, education and values, the Dean-Kerry Democrats are to the left of the Clintonites, not to mention left of the mood in the "red" states they lost in 2000 and will need to win this time around. We doubt it's an accident that Senator Hillary Clinton, waiting in the wings for 2008, is now more hawkish than Mr. Dean and Senator Kerry on the war on terror.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB107714990578933384,00.html (paid subscription)

[rusty charly]

1. boy, hillary not running

has really blown the whole party. so, now they have to keep bringing up the 2008 "problem"

[Darth_Kitten]

2. Interesting.....thanks.

:hi: :D

[sallyseven]

4. The WSJ for crying out loud

They never make sense.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Yeah and Bush&Co has erased every bit of Republican moderation

that ever was. So?

[mistertrickster]

5. It's truly sad to see a great old newspaper get bribed by tax cuts.

Someday Wall Street will figure out that its health is utterly dependent on the economic health of America, but that realization seems slow in coming . . .

[emulatorloo]

6. *****RIGHT WING SOURCE*****

WSJ editorial page is SO RIGHT WING. . . .

It bears repeating. . .Wall Street Journal Editorial page is well known as a RIGHT WING SOURCE right up there w Rush, Murdoch, Wash Times.