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

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (484279)	10/31/2003 12:06:26 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 769670

you know what, that is a really good piece. This paragraph is right on imho, EXCEPT the dismissal of Clinton. "Yuppies" LOVED Clinton, at least on the west coast, although Tsongas was also popular. Its all about who is available for the vote. Dean is missed by a lot of traditional media. They think he is an extreme liberal, but he is not. He is only liberal on matters of war and social issues. On fiscal matters, he's conservative! A great combo. And I love his optimism. The yuppies are culturally liberal and fiscally conservative. They deride President Bush's tax cuts as unaffordable but suspect we can't afford big new spending programs either. And, reflecting a middle-class, progressive tradition that dates back a century, they are skeptical of anything that smacks of machine politics. They like anti-politicians who tell hard truths. Alienated by quintessential party man Walter Mondale, they flocked to aloof outsider Gary Hart. Alienated by all-things-to-all-people Bill Clinton, they flocked to Paul Tsongas, who equated fiscal belt-tightening with moral virtue. Alienated by packaged, scripted Al Gore, they flocked to introspective, idealistic Bill Bradley. And, this year, they have made a religion of Howard Dean.