Haward Dean Failed To Secure Plants

[jravnsbo]

I would like to learn more.  Got a story to post or a link?

Another good thing about this race for Bush, no more last hour DWI surprises.  After 4 years int eh spotlights all his record is out there, but people ( especially Gephardt's who seem to be best at it) are still digging up stuff on Dean.

Dean likes to say that the present administration has failed on Homeland Security, but it looks like Howard Dean failed to secure nuclear power plants in his own state while he was governor.

I don't think that this hurts Dean in the primary one bit, I do think that it is another strike against him in the general election, however.

What do you guys think about all of this.

[jravnsbo]

MAn wish they would wait for this story to break, don't want them to screw thois up and not nominate Dean!

[jravnsbo]

yeah and more contributions too, b/c he is unfairly attacked for the actions he took!

wonder how this will plan t the greens though. and sure doesn't help national security credentials.

[jravnsbo]

Gephardt has shown dean has apattern going.  Make outrageous statement, deny it, change it, then defnd it.  

Very true.

Excellent  point, Christopher. Which is why it's wrong to put too much emphasis on Dean's gaffes...yeah, he may not be the most polished politician, but it's hard to find any examples in the past in which foot-in-mouth disease was cripping or even all that detrimental to a candidate's cause. It depends on what is said, of course...but the voters don't mind verbal missteps as long as the candidate has a decent explanation for them.

Bush and Reagan never retracted statements or contradicted themselves though.  Dean does all of the time.  I can't claim credit for this, but Dean doesn't have a Reaction Team, he has a Retraction Team.