Ruth Conniff of The Progressive profiles former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and rightfully interviews members of Vermont's Progressive Party and others who say he may not be all he is cracked up to be. "'Few people would have accused him of being a progressive governor in Vermont,' says Paul Burns, executive director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group (one of the network of consumer and environmental advocacy groups founded by Ralph Nader). 'It was not by accident that a strong progressive party was formed while he was governor here as an alternative to some of the positions he was taking.'"
Ouch. Conniff also mentions that Dean had "strong support" from the NRA. But not unlike Rep. Dennis Kucinich's pro-life voting record, progressives will have to learn to live with a candidate who isn't 100 percent of what they want - if they want to win nationally and be rid of King George W.
"Would U.S. Elect Another President-General?"
FoxNews profiles [aka attacks] Wesley Clark:
"'I don’t think he has a prayer of anyone taking him seriously as a candidate for president, but I do think there is a prayer for someone taking him seriously as a candidate for vice president,' said Rich Galen, a Washington, D.C.-based Republican strategist and editor of Mullings.com ... 'He was wrong on everything,' said Jim McLaughlin, a Republican pollster for the New York-based McLaughlin & Associates. 'I think his candidacy was over before it even started. He is a pundit on television who was mostly wrong about everything he talked about.'"Of course, Republicans are heavily interviewed in the piece with Democratic pollster Celinda Lake saying some positive things. But the rumor is that Clark won't be a candidate because he has taken some high powered job.
