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WSJ: Don Rickels Democrats Vs. Horatio Alger Republicans

WSJ Opinion Journal, Best of the Web Today (6-3-05)

"Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean further burnished his shoot-from-the-lip reputation Thursday" by suggesting that President Bush won re-election because Republicans are lazy...

A "60 Minutes" profile of Dean from October 2003, when he was the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, suggests that this latest line of attack may reflect an unresolved adolescent rebellion...

The Associated Press reports that another Democrat yesterday said of the vice president: "Cheney is hated as the most cruel monster and bloodthirsty beast, as he has drenched various parts of the world in blood."

Oh, sorry, that wasn't a Democrat--it was a spokesman for North Korea's communist regime. We should have known; the NoKo nuts at least have a little flair in their style of insult....