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Article: AND ALL DEMOCRATS EMBARRASS POLITICS.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 29, 2004
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Byline: GEORGE F. WILLSyndicated columnist
WASHINGTON -- New Hampshire confirmed what Iowa intimated. Democrats who are serious about the candidates' electability understand that seriousness requires a retreat from the feminization of politics.
That explains Democrats' short-lived flirtation with Wesley Clark, the empty uniform who, were a Democrat now president, probably would be on the right flank of Republicans running this year. And the Democrats' movement away from feminization explains John Kerry's brisk forward march, with a military cadence.
Kerry's "patrician aloofness" may be manly reticence. But he has embraced today's ...