Dean is not progressive Re: [lbo-talk] Democrats: Thunder On the Left

[Lance Murdoch]

I am sick of hearing how liberal and progressive Dean supposedly is.  On 
Meet the Press he said he wanted to raise the age of Social Security.  He 
wants balanced budgets no matter what, and is called a "fiscal 
conservative" in virtually every article.  How liberal and progressive is 
this?

Gephardt is from Missouri, a relatively conservative area relative to 
Vermont, but has been behind labor 110% since his first day in office.  
Dean seems to be the hit among the upper middle class, white professional 
limousine liberal crowd.  So a lot of these folks sent him some money 
through a web site so he gets some name recognition...barf.  It's real 
easy to be an outsider and talk a lot of BS, he's already backtracking on 
his Iraq talk now that he's in the press all of the time.  Not that 
Gephardt is perfect, but I think he has slugged it out in Washington DC 
for working class and progressive issues a lot longer and harder than Dean 
and his yuppie liberal constituency who make me want to puke.

-- Lance

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, mike larkin wrote:


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