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...American troops in Iraq, then on American labor standards on trade. Before that, he trimmed his honorable position on raising the age of eligibility for Social Security and his support for lifting the embargo on Cuba. Dean still proudly struts his pro-gun stance in the anti-gun Democratic Party, but as often as not he points out the political efficacy of that position in the red states. The question is: How many of Dean's positions are negotiable? As victory becomes a possibility, how much integrity will he compromise to win? Another question: How long before Dean's tough...
...Democratic Party has a strong record on national security: in the twentieth century, America successfully defended its allies in two world wars under the leadership of two Democratic presidents. But the cowardly faction of the Democratic Party seems to have forgotten the example of another Democrat: President John F. Kennedy ’40, who averted nuclear war by exercising restraint during the Cuban Missile Crisis when the hawks in his administration wanted a preemptive strike. A leader who is strong on national security does not recklessly throw troops into conflict at any and every opportunity, but exercises sound judgment...
...that was five months and many millions of dollars ago. Now that he's both the front runner and the Democrat poised to raise the most cash, the doctor is reassessing his prescription. Ultimately, President Bush may leave him no other choice. As he did in 2000, Bush is forgoing matching funds, freeing himself to spend the record $200 million he hopes to raise for the primaries--in which he is unopposed--to beat up on the Democratic nominee. Any Democrat who accepts matching funds must cap his spending at $45 million, leaving the candidate broke and defenseless from...
Last week the President restated the obvious: retreat is not an option. Iraq cannot be left an anarchic, terrorist state. Every major Democrat running for President, including Howard Dean, agrees--and most go further than Bush, asserting that more money and manpower are needed to secure the peace. But the President has stubbornly resisted sharing with the American people a detailed assessment of the situation in Iraq: the fact that we may still be there a decade from now at a cost of hundreds of billions. The Pentagon--the civilian leadership of the Pentagon, that is--stubbornly insists that...
...That, plus the fact that, so far, no Democratic presidential candidate has really made an issue of the trade deficit with China?not even Dick Gephardt, who was never slow to tackle the Japanese. True, Gephardt has called for an "international minimum wage," which free-trade purists (I am one) see as a disguised way to make poor countries' exports more expensive on international markets. Similarly, at the Democrat contenders' debate last week in Albuquerque, N.M., Vermont Governor Howard Dean said "we cannot continue to ship our jobs to countries where they get paid 50? an hour...