Reply #53: Thank you for your reply. You don't know me, but I do keep my word. [View All]

[Octafish]

First, regarding your question: No, I have not visited all the candidates' websites. I prefer to read their positions as stated through newspaper and magazine interviews, as well as in live speeches if possible, or pre-recorded speeches, broadcast on television and radio, and on the Internet.

Second: no my post was not "a tactic to keep (my) attacks going." I said I'd stop if someone answered my question. So far, no one has. The information from the web site is much appreciated, however.

Third: Shining the spotlight on cockroaches is a lot different than prosecuting criminality and treason. If you've followed my criticisms of the ex-governor ex-doctor ex-stockbroker you'd know that I think he's talked a lot, but actually done very little in the way of being a real Democrat, let alone going after the Bush Organized Crime Family. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:


Who's the Real Howard Dean?

As Vermont governor, the liberal firebrand was a fiscal conservative with close ties to business

Business Week

Howard Dean has fought his way to the front of the Democratic pack jostling for the 2004 Presidential nomination partly because he has won the hearts of so many liberals with his antiwar rhetoric and shoot-from-the-lip style. But who is the real Howard Dean? Is he the left-of-center insurgent being portrayed in the press or the business-friendly fiscal conservative and pragmatic moderate who governed Vermont for 11 years?

Many who worked with Dean are astonished at his current image and comparisons to liberal icons such as George McGovern. "The Howard Dean you are seeing on the national scene is not the Dean that we saw around here for the last decade," says
John McClaughry, president of the Ethan Allen Institute, a conservative Vermont think tank. "He's moved sharply left."

Conservative Vermont business leaders praise Dean's record and his unceasing efforts to balance the budget, even though Vermont is the only state where a balanced budget is not constitutionally required. Moreover, they argue that the two most liberal policies adopted during Dean's tenure -- the "civil unions" law and a radical revamping of public school financing – were instigated by Vermont's ultraliberal Supreme Court rather than Dean. "He was not a left-wing wacko," says Bill Stenger, a Republican and president of Jay Peak Resort, who says he supported Dean because of his "fiscally responsible, socially conscious policies."

Business leaders were especially impressed with the way Dean went to bat for them if they got snarled in the state's stringent environmental regulations. When Canada's Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. wanted to build a new manufacturing plant on 700 acres of Vermont farmland in the mid-'90s, for instance, Dean greased the wheels. Husky obtained the necessary permits in near-record time. "He was very hands-on," says an appreciative Dirk Schlimm, the Husky executive in charge of the
project.

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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_32/b3845084.htm