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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (458062)	9/12/2003 11:08:43 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

An "outsider" (for lack of a better word) means someone outside the party inner circle, someone who doesn't play the game, marches to his own drummer for better or worse. Could even be a governor or senator. Also refers to someone the party powers don't want nominated, who isn't on their list, who they don't think has a chance in the general election. Usually these "outsiders" are to the right or the left of the party line. And they attack those who more or less toe the party line. Every four years there are a couple outsiders who make a run for it with populist support. Dean, McCain, Bradley, Tsongas, Buchanon, Clark, etc. Dean is very much an outsider. His calling Hamas "soldiers" or saying only he talks to white people about race (a lie) are the kind of statements only an outsider would make. Sometimes they work, but usually they alienate the candidate from the mainstream.