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Arianna Huffington is a rare breed of political celebrity: an articulate pundit
who left the intellectually safe world of criticizing elected officials to try
her hand at actually becoming one. While her campaign for Governor of
California in the highly unusual 2003 recall election was unsuccessful, the
experience has brought valuable insight and perspective to Fanatics and
Fools. Huffington, a former supporter of Newt Gingrich, has recently
occupied a unique place in the political landscape as she moved away from the
right, never quite arrived at the left and dwelled somewhere askew from what is
thought of as the center. In this book, she grudgingly endorses the idea of
voting with the Democrats in the 2004 presidential election despite grave misgivings
about the Democratic Party, which she accuses of too often trying to be a
watered-down of the Republicans. But even those Democrats, she feels, are
infinitely preferable to the George W. Bush administration with its record of
corporate favoritism and patterns of deception leading up to the invasion of