Opponents flatter Dean in N.H. | Boston Herald

Local view: Opponents flatter Dean in N.H.

By John P. Gregg
Monday, July 14, 2003

Candidates know they've got momentum when their opponents start sounding like them on the stump, and that's good news for former Vermont governor Howard Dean.

Coming from a hunting state which has only a handful of murders each year, Dean, for months, has been saying that while he backs current federal gun laws on the books, he thinks individual states, not Washington, should handle most future gun control legislation. With an eye to the South, Dean also touts past endorsements from the National Rifle Association, a group that helped defeat Al Gore in key rural states in the 2000 elections.

So guess which other Democrat running for president said the following last month while campaigning in New Hampshire: "I'm a gun owner. I'm a hunter. I've hunted since I was a kid."

That would be none other than John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who doesn't typically stroll around Beacon Hill or Nantucket Harbor making such statements. Kerry also sounded like Dean when he said the United States is the only industrialized nation that doesn't guarantee health coverage -- a staple of Dean's fire-breathing stump speech -- and said "health care should be a right, not a privilege."

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So is this how Kerry's people are going to "take out Dean any time (they) want"?

"The wolf always smiles before he bites."

out killing animals. God, take me now!
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That they don't like Kerry makes me think better of him, not worse.