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Originally posted by Superbelt
Right, Dennis Kuchinich has realistically no chance since he is so far left that the moderates wouldn't go for him.
Good thing Dean is a moderate. He isn't an anti-war nut. Just anti irrational war. He favored the first gulf war and Afghanistan.
He has been given top marks by the libertarian CATO institute for his fiscal responsibility
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That's incorrect. John McClaugrhy, former Vermont state senator, September 6, 2003:
"In his early years, when he was still restricted by his predecessor's fiscal bailout program, he earned a respectable 'B' [1996] on the Cato Institute's fiscal responsibility report card. By 2002 his ranking had dropped to 'D.' During his last eight years Dr. Dean signed into law increases in the sales and use, rooms, meals, liquor, cigarette and electrical-energy taxes."
His 2002 mark, "D," is not what I would call a "top" mark.
Also, considering the popularity of the liberation of Iraq, Dean's anti-war views do solidly put him in the "liberal" and not "moderate" camp.
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Originally posted by Superbelt
and he is so far appearing to be foreign policy intelligent as opposed to the man who couldn't name most of the most powerful leaders in the world when quizzed about it in 1999.
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Those "most powerful leaders" are the leaders of India, Chechnya, Pakistan, and Taiwan. India, yes (where is their Security Council seat?), but it'd be hard to make compelling cases for the other three.
So far, outside of being pounded on "Meet the Press" (where he was unfairly pounded for not knowing troop strengths), we don't know much about Dean's foreign policy. I wouldn't yet call him foreign policy, being that his experience in Vermont is probably not the same as being governor of California, New York, or Texas.
What I see is a massive media effort to "convert" Dean from left-wing extremist to "moderate." Six months ago, the major media consistenly labeled Dean as "far-left" and "liberal." His fundraising is a massive success, and all of a sudden the media is rehabilitating his image.
-- Alvin