Washington Post endorses Ben Cardin over Mfume.

[nickshepDEM]

Once the boy wonder of Maryland politics, Mr. Cardin has 40 years of legislative experience to his credit, including a stint as one of the youngest-ever and best speakers of the state House of Delegates. In Congress he has forged strategic alliances with key Republicans, thereby breaking from the pack of Democrats who have struggled in an era of GOP dominance to make a mark; he has thus been able to craft important bills to enhance the financial security of retirees and streamline the Internal Revenue Service.

On those measures, his partnership with former representative Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican who is now the White House budget chief, is a textbook lesson in how a minority-party lawmaker can wield influence.

The rap on Mr. Cardin is that he is a legislator's legislator -- a quiet, colorless insider who embodies the system but is ill-equipped to shake it up. In fact, a hallmark of Mr. Cardin's legislative record is tough-minded independence. He was one of a minority of Democrats to vote against the war in Iraq, though once troops were on the ground he acted responsibly by supporting bills to fund and equip them. He broke with many Democrats and labor unions to back the North American Free Trade Agreement. At the same time he has stood against the Bush administration's fiscal recklessness, opposing estate tax cuts for the rich.

Mr. Cardin is a recognized expert on health care, tax and trade policy, and his tough-minded, sensible record has made him one of the House's most respected members on both sides of the aisle.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/20/AR2006082000512.html

[Alex35332]

1. When can we stop calling the post liberal?

I mean, they seem to be "Neo-Con Democrat" to me,ie: imperialistic, capitalistic, ethnocentric, but pro-choice. BTW that is a term that is getting out there more and more as the mainstream media is realizing that Neo-Cons have infiltrated both parties. I have seen it around the blogosphere in "the peoples voices" I think I even saw it in the nation.

[Sasha Undercover]

2. You should have

stopped calling them liberal about 10 minutes after Katherine Graham died.

[Captain Hilts]

4. No, when Donald Graham took over. I'm voting Cardin. nt

[Ken Burch]

6. No. When Katharine Graham gave that speech

saying that the press shouldn't do Woodstein-type reporting anymore now that Watergate was over.

Other than those four years, the Post was NEVER liberal.

[bertha katzenengel]

3. Aahhh, shit.

:banghead:

[kwassa]

5. The Post editorial page is more conservative than the rest of the paper

They supported the Iraq invasion, after all. The paper itself is much more liberal. The same is true of the Wall Street Journal, though the difference is more pronounced there.