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...party in search of a winning message for the 2004 election, the contentious debate highlighted the fault lines between third-way centrist Democrats like Lieberman and liberals such as Dean...
...believe Howard Dean to be just the kind of centrist we need in the White House [NATION, Aug. 11]. I'm tired of the bickering over whether a candidate is too liberal or too conservative. I'm interested in electing a President who has a record of compromise that will permit things to get done without giving too much leverage to special interests. Dean is a fresh face with fresh ideas. He speaks his mind and his convictions. He is not afraid to be branded un-American for saying what needs to be said. JEFF ANDERSON Brattleboro...
...backlash has started. "It's kind of like the Mafia," says a strategist for another Democratic contender. "Everyone wants another family to hit him. You don't want to bring blood into your own house." The centrist Democratic Leadership Council (D.L.C.), which helped nurture Bill Clinton's political career, warned last week that the "far left" was taking over the party and pulling it over a cliff. No one had to ask whom the D.L.C.'s chairman, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, was referring to when he posited, "Do we want to vent, or do we want to govern?" Although...
Both Tauzin and Breaux play it cool when asked about their interest in the job. "No one has told me Jack is leaving, and I won't believe he's going until he does," Breaux told TIME. But the three-term centrist Democratic Senator may not run for re-election in 2004, especially if a Democrat wins the Louisiana Governor's race this fall, thus ensuring that a Democrat would fill out his term. Said a spokesman for Tauzin, who insists he is running in '04: "No job has been offered, and we all know Jack's going...
...there is yet another challenge ahead: Democrats are betting on the presidential contest to bring an end to the ideological identity crisis they have been struggling with since simultaneously losing both Bill Clinton and the traumatic 2000 election. Three years ago, so many had signed on to Clinton's centrist vision that their rallying cry was "we are all New Democrats now;" these days, Democrats are so fractured, so lacking in purpose that Dean's surest (if borrowed) applause line is his declaration that he represents "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party...