Thursday, January 27, 2005

Trouble in Paradise

Donald Lambro reports that Howard Dean is the "front runner" to head the DNC; however, it is reported that one of the Democratic "idols", Bill Clinton, is actively working to "keep Mr. Dean from being elected". Sounds like trouble in paradise.
Howard Dean is emerging as the front-runner to head the Democratic National Committee, but the former Vermont governor and failed presidential candidate has some DNC members saying he is too liberal to broaden the party's base.
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It is no secret within party circles that former President Bill Clinton and his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, do not want Mr. Dean to be party chairman, and that they saw his presidential candidacy as an effort to pull the party away from the more centrist policies of Mr. Clinton's presidency.
Mrs. Clinton, who may be considering a 2008 presidential run of her own, has stayed out of the DNC fight, but her husband is said to be working behind the scenes to keep Mr. Dean from being elected. (Read the article here)

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