RIP PAUL WELLSTONE ...A friend of conservatives? by Tom Adkins 11/01/02 The most liberal of liberals is gone. Paul Wellstone, his wife, daughter and several staffers died tragically last week in a plane crash. Liberals lost a dedicated warrior, a great orator and relentless fighter. But look deeper, and this is a far greater political tragedy for Republicans. More liberal than Kennedy, but without Hillary's calculating coldness, Maxine Waters's bigotry or Tom Daschle's cynicism, Wellstone was a very different liberal leader. He actually believed. Passionately. And no matter how unreasonable, how silly, or how blatantly wrong the liberal position, Wellstone...
