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Article: DEMOCRATIC CONTENDERS GORE AND GEPHARDT TAKE OFF THE GLOVES.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 9, 1997
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As House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt increasingly solidifies his position as the Democratic alternative to Vice President Al Gore, the two competitors no longer pretend their rivalry is purely philosophical; it has become a personal vendetta.
It is an open secret in the capital that the political debate over the party's future between the Missouri congressman and Gore has escalated beyond mere policy disagreements into a bitter clash driven by intense mutual animosity.
Each views the other with alarm as an untrustworthy political opportunist who is willing to split the Democratic Party, and perhaps destroy it, on the altar of his own ambitions. ``They ...