Hartford Courant: Sep 4 Caucas

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http://www.ctnow.com/news/politics/hc-caucus0904.artsep04,1,2715894.story?coll=hc-headlines-politics

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FIGHTIN' WORDS

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, lashed out at Democrat Howard Dean this week for comments he made about Attorney General John Ashcroft during a campaign appearance in New Hampshire this past weekend. Dean said that Ashcroft "is not a patriot. John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy," a reference to the Communist-hunting senator of the 1950s.

DeLay fired back in a statement: "Howard Dean's comments are an embarrassment to the democratic process and the Democrat Party. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker."

Dean's communications director, Tricia Enright, then returned fire: "The narrow ideological agenda of the DeLay-Ashcroft wing of the Republican Party threatens basic American freedoms that have been enshrined in the Constitution for over 200 years. Those policies are not only extreme, they are cruel."


- Associated Press

AD WATCH

Add John Kerry to the list of Democratic presidential wannabes running TV ads. He's starting them up in Iowa this week, joining Gephardt, Dean and Edwards, who have been running ads in Iowa and elsewhere. In Dean's case - lots of elsewheres.

Still AWOL in the ad watch - Joe Lieberman.
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Loved the AWOL Ad Lieberman reference.