http://www.tms.tribune.com/products/commentators.html(snip) if... you accidentally happen upon any coverage of the presidential campaign these days, be forewarned. What you see will not be pretty. It's a replay of the Donner Party: Democrats, about to enter the promised land, eating each other. And the one they're feasting on most is former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.
The Democratic Leadership Council took the first bite. DLC Founder Al From, who recruited Bill Clinton to bring the Democratic Party back from ruin, warned that Dean belonged to the party's "McGovern-Mondale wing" and would repeat their sad history by winning only two states.
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They are all dead wrong. They underestimate the anger that most Democrats, and a growing number of Americans, feel toward this administration. Besides, Dean is not the wild-eyed liberal they paint him to be. And he definitely has what it takes to beat George W. Bush.
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The big question is: Can an outsider get elected president? The answer is: more often than not. Just ask Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. Americans like former governors as president. The last person to go straight from the U.S. Senate to the White House was John F. Kennedy
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