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...Parents need to know that no matter what school their child attends they’re going to be learning the same skills,” said challenger Marc McGovern...
...support is declining among those Americans who worry about the economy and an enormous deficit. But those moderates and fiscal conservatives, who do not altogether detest Bush, will never support a candidate so shrill as Howard Dean, who when all is said and done, is just another McGovern...
...want to do good things on their behalf. It's hard work, and fury isn't the best motivation. You have to sit through the meetings, listen to other people and say your piece and be civil about it. Anger and loathing are losing hands in politics. George McGovern was a decorated war hero who got hit by more political garbage than anybody, but he is today the same good and thoughtful man he always was, and that's victory...
...matters now, the D.L.C. argues; it's his opposition to the war, his proposal to repeal the Bush tax cut and how he stokes the anger within the party. In a May memo D.L.C. leaders Al From and Bruce Reed planted Dean in what they called the party's "McGovern-Mondale wing, defined principally by weakness abroad and elitist interest-group liberalism at home. That's the wing that lost 49 states in two elections...
...certitude gained by his decision not to merely live off--or, for that matter, maximize--that wealth. Instead, Dean got a medical degree, which gave him confidence, a comfort in his own skin. In that sense--and in some others--Dean, who has been compared so often to George McGovern and Ralph Nader, is far more like ... George W. Bush...