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Dean endorses Sanders -- the price of honesty
Friday, May 13, 2005
7:42 AM
Although Dean' endorsement of Bernie Sanders involves party coalition brokering of the most conventional sort, he's going to catch flack from it from the right and the left.
The left will criticize Dean for being undemocratic in his open request for Progressives not to run for local offices if the Dems support Sanders:
He says he understands that some Vermont Democrats would like to run for the seat being opened by the retirement of Senator James Jeffords.
Dean says if Democrats agree not to run for the Senate, Progressives should agree not to run for other statewide offices like the U-S House and lieutenant governor.
from the above cited article
The right is already criticizing Dean for endorsing a socialist. Of course, the right in this country wouldn't know a social democrat from a bolshevik -- perhaps this is part of our foreign policy problem with the EU.
I personally find Dean's attitude refreshingly transparent. This is the way party politics work. It's especially the way things work in multi-party coalition states. Of course, that Vermont is the only multi-party state in the US, might be the reason people in the national press are bound to be confused by this one.
Plus what Republican would believe that Bernie Sanders brought better long-term community-minded employers to Burlington, Vermont as it's pro-business socialist mayor, getting re-elected for several terms before the state sent him to DC as their only (then Independent) member of the House of Representatives?
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