Ted Rall - Rall's Rule Of Ideological Balance

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The thrust of the article is that it takes an extremist to beat an extremist.

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Leftist or centrist? That's the big question facing Democrats in the run-up to next year's primaries. "The way to beat George Bush is not to be like him," declares former Vermont governor Howard Dean, whose feisty antiwar rhetoric has caught fire among liberals and made him the current frontrunner for the nomination. Seizing the centrist standard of the Clintonites, Senator Joe Lieberman (news - web sites) warns that a liberal standard-bearer like Dean "could lead the Democratic Party into the political wilderness for a long time to come. It could be, really, a ticket to nowhere."

Who's right?
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more at: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=127&e=1&u=/030807/7/4wps0.html

[On the Road]

1. Very Interesting Analysis

Ted Rall really impressed me with this one. I had never thought of it as "you have to match the level of etremity of the incumbent in order to beat him." But it strikes me as having merit.