The New Stop-Dean Candidate: Howard Dean (Saletan @ Slate)

[pruner]

By William Saletan
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 1:36 PM PT


All year, Howard Dean has been gaining ground in the Democratic presidential race. And all year, Democratic centrists have been scrambling for a candidate to stop him. He's too liberal, they said. He's soft on defense, a Vermont lefty, an evangelist for expansive programs. To stop him, they turned to Joe Lieberman, then John Kerry, then Wes Clark. But the more Dean's rivals expose his record, the more I suspect that the centrist who's going to spare Democrats this left-wing nightmare isn't any of these guys. It's Howard Dean.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2089813/

[Cha]

1. This is funny!

"You can imagine how angry I am, as a swing voter, to find out these horrible things about Dean. My hands are trembling so violently, I can barely write his name on the check."


I remember not too long ago that a one William Saletan was not so favorable about Dean...I don't have a link but I seem to remember his name in conjunction with that.

So if that's true I'm glad to welcome him into the fold! :kick:

[unfrigginreal]

2. Glad that you posted this!

I just read it and was going to post it myself. Bump for your post AND my first signature line. :kick:

[silverweb]

3. Great article!

It points out with great style the reasons for which I've been calling Dean "the common sense" candidate for some time now.

:D