Surging Democratic Front-Runner Dean Comes Under Attack by Rivals Gephardt, Edwards, Lieberman
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa Dec. 12 -- Caught in a crossfire of criticism, leading Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean on Friday testily denied accusations that he gave tax breaks to corporate villain Enron.
While one rival, Dick Gephardt, accused Dean of catering to corporations while governor of Vermont, another Democratic hopeful, John Edwards, suggested that the front-runner is waging a negative, divisive campaign doomed to fail against President Bush.
A third rival, Joe Lieberman, plans to criticize Dean's economic record and policies in a speech next week.
The one-two punch came three days after former Vice President Al Gore endorsed Dean, eliminating any doubt who tops the nine-person field on the eve of the primary season.
Dean, campaigning in Iowa, stuck to his script and accused Bush of aiding corporate interests while ordinary Americans suffer.
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Ted Rall and a political writer I read not to long ago were right, the democrats for the most part are going to go all out and gang up on Dean to try to destroy him and they are just going to hurt the democrats chances in 2004. I can see them blowing every cent they have on ads trying to stop Dean making up every lie they can about him and in the end it won't help them one bit.