A Debt to Dean

[Nation]

Great article on Howard Dean from Mark Shields (CNN). Makes me glad that I'm still a Dean supporter.
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NASHUA, New Hampshire -- By now, the average American must have seen the Howard Dean "concession" rant after his third-place finish in Iowa a couple of dozen times.

For some, that bizarre performance is all they know -- or feel they ever need to know -- about the former Vermont governor and his campaign for the presidency. That is a shame, because the Dean candidacy has already profoundly changed American politics for the better.

Howard Dean has already altered the national political debate of this presidential year. More importantly, Dean has redeemed his party from the debilitating squalor of its narcotic dependence on soft money by showing the nation a better and cleaner way to finance elections.


read more:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/column.shields.opinion.dean/index.html

[jravnsbo]

I do thinkwe owe a debt to Dean he gave us John Kerry the ultra liberal senator.  I love it.  I wrote Kerry off as he was bumbling and talking like he was int eh Senate, but always hopefuly he would turn it around and good he did.

[Nation]

Yeah, I think the point of the article was lost on you, jrav  

[jravnsbo]

I rea dit and got the point, but I thanked him for other reasons

Yeah, I think the point of the article was lost on you, jrav  

[NHPolitico]

I do thinkwe owe a debt to Dean he gave us John Kerry the ultra liberal senator.  I love it.  I wrote Kerry off as he was bumbling and talking like he was int eh Senate, but always hopefuly he would turn it around and good he did.

"Give us Dean. Dean's our man" -- Rove
"Oh, we get a Massachusetts upperclass snob more liberal than Ted Kennedy? Wow, thanks. That's even better." -- Rove