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Dean Attacks Rival Kerry As a Copycat (MARC HUMBERT, May 31, 2003, The Associated Press)

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, lashing out at his chief rival for the hearts of New Hampshire's Democratic primary voters, charged Saturday that Sen. John Kerry was becoming a copycat.

"I appreciate Sen. Kerry saying we don't need Bush Lite, and we don't," Dean told about 1,000 people attending a forum on rural issues in Lake Placid. "But, Sen. Kerry, we don't want Dean Lite, either."

Early in the campaign for the Democratic nomination to run against President Bush next year, the liberal Dean often introduced himself as representing "the Democratic wing of the Democratic party."

Before his speech, Dean told reporters that he had heard about fellow Democratic hopeful Kerry's speech to the forum and the warning by the senator from Massachusetts that Democrats had to stop acting like Republicans.

"I heard he did a great job giving my speech," Dean said. [...]

Former President Clinton and other party leaders earlier had appealed to the candidates to go easy on each other. Dean departed from that script.

My, what an elevated level of discourse you get when your party runs out of ideas and has only personality differences. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 2, 2003 7:44 PM