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...charms, Washington with his rabble-rousing advocacy for the downtrodden. Before he was killed in a plane crash just days before the November election, the Minnesotan son of Russian-Jewish immigrants was a voice for laborers, the poor and the mentally ill, emphatically embracing the long-out-of-fashion label "liberal." In October, Wellstone was one of 23 Senators to vote against the resolution to authorize using force against Iraq. His righteous indignation and occasionally long-winded speeches could grate, but he won respect and personal affection on both sides of the aisle for that rare trait in Washington: staying...
...certainly not the truth. But they may have revealed a truth. The suspicion is that they bubbled up from his id and escaped through his lips when his guard was down, thereby exposing an important and deeply distressing moral flaw in Lott himself. This process is too serious to label a gaffe. So let's call it a supergaffe. A supergaffe is when a politician says what he really thinks...
...Anyone who wants to consider me a homophobe should also label me a ‘heterophobe,’” Pappin said, explaining his opposition to all sexual license...
...self-identify as liberals—otherwise there can never be any organized opposition to the party that so readily calls itself conservative. A posse of freelance, unidentified left-wingers can’t stand up to the incumbents unless they band together using their own clumsy, imprecise political labels to distinguish themselves. If liberals are going to use a label, why not use the clear, time-honored one that is still totally fitting for this sadly dwindling group...
...party will turn it into one. The Republicans will attempt to use the tactics of the 1988 election in 2004, attacking the distinguished senator and patriotically anti-war veteran on practically the only grounds they can—his status as a Massachusetts liberal. This is a label Kerry can hardly hope to shake off—it is, after all, wholly accurate. If he tries to sidestep, he will neither satisfy scornful conservatives of his centrism nor convince the shrinking liberal voting base that he’s anything more than another Al Gore or Sen. Joe Lieberman?...