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General Gingrich
Newt AEI broadside angers White House. Plus: Wesley Clark's latest retirement. Michael Moore is hearing fictitious boos. Slade won't let it slide.
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Jennifer Dunn to not challenge Democratic Sen. Patty Murray ? No sooner did Dunn announce her decision not to run than Gorton's name was floated -- evidently by Gorton -- as a potential challenger to Murray. /p>Already, Rep. George Nethercutt has announced his intention to run in the Washington primary. Gorton, a moderate Republican, lost his seat to Maria Cantwell in 2000. He was thought to be on the same page as the Bush political team, particularly after the president put Gorton on a commission to investigate the September 11th terrorist attacks. But then Gorton talked Dunn out of running for a seat Karl Rove had basically slotted for her, hoping to run a strong Republican woman against an unappealing Democratic female.
p>"There is no way Gorton should run," says a Republican National Committee staffer. "He's a has-been." br> /p>
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