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There is a misapprehension that the Dean phenomenon was created by the Internet. It was created by Dean's mouth--and by the fury of many Democrats at what they perceive to be a radical Republican Administration. Several weeks ago, at a Dean speech in San Francisco, a woman approached me and said, "I've been a moderate, Clinton-Gore Democrat, but no more." I asked her why. She said, "Grover Norquist," referring to the Republican taxophobe lobbyist who helped forge the President's tax cuts. "He said, 'Bipartisanship is date rape.' Well, I don't like being raped...
...spent most of his time talking about the need for a balanced budget. He defended his opposition to gun control and his support for the death penalty. He swung toward the protectionist left on trade, but most of his other positions could easily have been embraced by a "New" Democrat. The crowd seemed not to notice his shopworn moderation, though. Dean had been bold on the war--and so freshness was assumed on every other issue. "This guy has everything that Bill Bradley didn't," said George Scott, a Bradley organizer in 2000. "He has a clear message. He says...
...support Democrats. I support Hillary because she’s a Democrat,” said Patricia Hawkins, a Belmont social worker who said she appreciated the senator’s stance on health care and welfare...
...backers of the recall petition - bankrolled by Republican Congressman Darrell Issa, who sees himself replacing Democrat Davis - announced last week that they had collected more than one million signatures. The names have been forwarded to the secretary of state for review. Getting that many signatures in a state of more than 34 million people wasn?t hard: Plenty of Californians are angry after witnessing their state get sucked down a financial black hole during the past three years. In 2001, price gouging energy companies took advantage of botched deregulation to subject the state to rolling blackouts. Shortly afterward, Silicon Valley...
...wasn't always so progressive. In the early '80s, when Reagan conservatism was ascendant, Earle sounded pretty much like any other law-and-order D.A. He spent a lot of time in court, and he stood out as a Democrat willing to aggressively prosecute corruption in his own party. (The G.O.P. didn't nominate a candidate to oppose Earle during the entire 1980s.) He seemed particularly conservative on the death penalty. In 1982 he said in a Limbaughesque radio commentary not only that he backed capital punishment but that it "reaffirms our humanity" and fulfills "our moral responsibility." He called...