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Combat. If one noun sums up Tom Harkin's political program and persona, it is combat. The Iowa Democrat proudly describes the strategy that won him five terms in the House and two in the Senate: "Always attack, never defend." He believes that a pugnacity gap kept Democrats out of the White House through the '80s. Now, as he runs for President, he proposes to fill that gap by waging class warfare against George Bush and guerrilla operations against Democrats he considers timid. "The only thing Americans like less than a dirty fighter," he says, "is someone...
...hardly waiting for an excuse to counterpunch. For months Harkin, 51, prepared for his formal announcement of candidacy last weekend by conducting the kind of aggressive populist campaign at which he excels. When he castigates the Reagan and Bush administrations for favoring the rich and harming the less affluent, he sings from the standard party hymnal. But when Harkin gets personal, he deftly exploits the politics of roots and resentment. He is the son of a Slovene immigrant mother who died young and an Iowan coal miner who never got to high school. In attacking the patrician President he keenly...
...identical reforms. Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder talks about a "fiscal conservatism" calling for similar spending cuts under the rubric of a "New Mainstream." And it seems that "George Herbert Walker Bush" doesn't stand firmly for "the hard-working men and women of America," as Sen. Thomas Richard Harkin (D-Iowa) reminded us last Sunday...
...Harkin will urge a return home, criticizing Bush's obsession with foreign policy and his corresponding neglect of domestic affairs. He will argue that the Bush administration's bare domestic agenda should be filled with solutions to crises of health care, drugs, poverty, unemployment and infrastructure...
...Harkin's charisma, message and spunk make him a top contender for the Democratic nomination. If he wins the party's nod, he might not beat George Herbert Walker Bush. But he would give him the fight of his life...