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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (3448)	7/16/2003 3:07:29 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793550

From Taranto's column in the WSJ.com When I read FA, I think of this. And I have been predicting trouble in the streets of New York during the Convention. >>>>Dean has emerged as the candidate of what we might call the Angry Left. This is a small but vocal segment of the electorate that has spent the past few years nursing a series of grievances--impeachment, Florida, Iraq--and building up a red-hot rage. We've corresponded by e-mail with several members of the Angry Left, and while what they say often seems crazy, there's no denying the genuineness of their feelings. Dean's appeal to such honest emotions is what makes him by far the most interesting candidate in the race. It also could portend disaster for the Democratic Party. Here's an e-mail we received today from an Angry Leftist, who mass-mailed it to more than 40 addresses: While I abhor violence in any form, what I think needs to happen within this country is for riots to occur against this regime. Similar to the riots that took place back in the 1960s. Also, when the RNC invades NYC next year for their convention, what needs to happen is riots similar to the one at the 1968 DNC convention in Chicago. There literally needs to be an explosion by the American people to wake the rest of the citizenry up. We have no reason to think the writer of this missive is in any way associated with the Dean campaign, but the point is that it's an extreme expression of the mood he's tapping into--a mood, we might add, that seems to have grown more pronounced over the past couple of weeks as a result of the State of the Union kerfuffle. But anger does not win presidential campaigns, and it's hard to think of a better way of ensuring George W. Bush's re-election than for his opponents to run riot in the streets of New York. Americans may be anxious about the economy, terrorism and war, but an anxious electorate needs reassurance, not rage. The problem for the Democrats is that their base is so furious, it may be impossible for them to nominate someone level-headed enough to make a plausible president.<<<<<< opinionjournal.com