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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 05:43 PM
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52. You do understand what the author is doing, rhetorically, don't you?
Edited on Fri Nov-14-03 05:44 PM by AP
He opens with the hypothesis that Dean wants to appeal to libertarians. He gives examples of the libertarian policies he embraces. He gives examples of the things which aren't libertarian (and there are only the few you cite). He then says don't worry about the non-libertarian things because Dean is doing it right -- he isn't hiding the costs (ie, he's not arguing for progressive taxation and increasing the tax burden on wealth individuals and corporations).

Then it finishes whith a few smoke signals the author thinks liberals will respond too, and some other loving words for Dean (like, that he's good looking). And then he says that he thinks Dean could give Bush a run for his money because he's fighting for the center -- the same territory Bush occupies (ie, the conservative center, because senior fellows at the Cato Inst think that's what the center is like-- they think it's populated by deregulators who don't like democratic tax policy).
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