MinnPost: Better to laugh than cry

Paul Wellstone used to (half) joke that he represented "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," by which I took him to mean he was one of those relatively rare liberals who wasn't embarrassed by his liberalism. (During the 1996 Wellstone-Boschwitz rematch campaign, Boschwitz hired an adman whose specialty was pinning the L-word on his Dem targets. The ads against Wellstone said things like "liberal, liberal, liberal" and "embarrassingly liberal."

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