Posted on 10/22/2002 12:13:48 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
The Federal Trade Commission should haul Bill McBride into court for violating truth-in-advertising rules by running for governor as a political moderate.
He's entitled to that label if he's running in Berkeley or Boston, but not in Florida, where loony liberalism and raising taxes by the billions are outside the mainstream.
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McBride is adept at telling each audience what it wants to hear and ducking the real questions, most importantly how to pay for his ambitious agenda. In this regard, he's similiar to Bill Clinton, but without the former president's considerable charm and political skills.
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Regarding education, McBride has been specific-and here it's clear that he may be a lawyer by training, but he's a social engineer by inclination.
Witness his desire to reimpose racial preferences in college admission. Of course he knows that in Florida that won't fly politically.
So McBride is trying to follow the lead of the few Democrats who have bucked the Republican tide in Florida-such as the late Gov. Lawton Chiles and Graham. That is, by finessing the liberal-dominated primary election, then running as more fiscally and culturally conservative in November.
Excerpted from Nothing Moderate About McBride by Peter A. Brown of the Orlando Sentinel and appearing in today's Tampa Tribune
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