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Article: COLMAN MCCARTHY
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- The Washington Post
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- February 7, 1988
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The Democrats' Lines Sound Awfully Familiar
In Life magazine, Sen. Kennedy of Massachusetts offered 3,000 words
on "Where Democrats Should Go From Here." Discussing defeats in the
past two presidential elections, he said that "the Democrats have
been a minority party, able to win nationally only when the people,
alarmed or distressed, found it necessary to be `saved' from the
Republicans."
Before listing some "guiding principles" for success, Kennedy
wrote that building a Democratic record "requires in part opposing a
fantastically popular Republican President who is not a candidate for
re-election and who has shown marked success in isolating himself
from political attack."
The Sen. ...