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Rooting for Win Paul, betting on Beebe
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem Jul 21, 2005 11:19am |
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| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Thursday, July 21, 2005 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By John Brummett
Win Paul Rockefeller is a powerfully good man, a proud son and devoted father and leader of Boy Scouts and public-spirited citizen of noble intentions and temperate instincts. I'm rooting as hard as I can for him to overpower this damnable affliction. May he come back to run another day, maybe when Republicans have overplayed their extremist hand and rediscovered the reason and wisdom of moderation.
Politically, Rockefeller's withdrawal from the governor's race will bear on the race only indirectly. He was not going to win the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
The race's strongest early signal is that Beebe went out in a month and raised a million dollars. A pro-business and pro-farm Democrat, one in the culturally conservative style of Pryor and Mike Ross and whose rhetoric exasperates almost daily the more left-inclined Democrats, still ought to be able to eke out a statewide victory. |
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