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...going to say what's fashionable in our politics - that I'm a Washington outsider, that I couldn't find the nation's capital on a map, that I have no experience in the highest levels of government. I do, and I think that experience matters," Representative Richard Gephardt said last week, toward the end of the speech in which he announced his candidacy for President. "I'm not the political flavor of the month. I'm not the flashiest candidate around. But the fight for working families is in my bones. It's where I come from...
...moment of stunning authenticity, which roused a partisan audience - and a dozing press corps - at the end of a thoughtful, well-written drone. Poor Gephardt: put a microphone in front of him and he sounds like he's trying to climb the down escalator. He also has the coloring and demeanor of macaroni and cheese. Recently, he compared himself to a pair of old sneakers. This, believe it or not, is a strategy. In fact, it's probably a pretty smart strategy: Gephardt is attempting to fuse the two qualities that will be the most important in the coming presidential...
...Gephardt and Senator Joe Lieberman are bookends, of a sort. Gephardt represents the decent past - the blue-collar, Roosevelt coalition, Midwestern populist, Old Democratic Party. Lieberman represents the recent past - the high-tech, welfare-reforming, free-trading New Democratic Party. And both seem slightly irrelevant so far. Both are solid citizens, but older, less hip than their competitors; neither seems comfortable being ushered to the stage with rock music. Neither lights any fires on the stump. They are probably the two most hawkish Democrats in the race. These are not advantages with party activists at the moment...
...Beware the Perilous Story Line As much as anything, what killed Gore in 2000 was the rap that he was a stiff who couldn't stop telling whoppers. Perceptions are jelling that Edwards is callow, Kerry aloof and patrician, Gephardt yesterday's news. Dean? Well, he's from tiny Vermont...
...candidates are worrying as much about how they don't want to be defined as how they do. Media profiles of Kerry feature him rhapsodizing about his Harley and playing his guitar. Edwards spent the fall giving heavy-duty policy speeches. Gephardt peppers his talks with New Democrat words like "responsibility," and he became a relatively early hawk on Iraq. Dean gave up his day job last week, which affords him lots more time to make friends outside the Green Mountain State...