Reply #2: it's all cause of Dean!

[msanger]

I'm only half kidding.

I actually think that Howard Dean and his supporters (of whom I am one) deserve alot of credit for bush's falling poll numbers. Dean was out there saying the emperor had no clothes when almost everybody else was admiring the trim on bush's jacket.

Dean's rise in the polls was arguably based on his telling the truth on bush. Other dems then started to pick up the chorus - calling bush a "miserable failure" being the best line I've heard so far.

It took the combination of terrible news (falling economy, rising casualty figures, clear lack of leadership or vision) PLUS democrats willing to call bush the failure that he is, in order for normal folks to start to realize what a mess bush has gotten us into.

Realizing what a mess bush has gotten us into is very different from realizing what a mess we are in.

And I think we have Howard Dean to thank for making clear that difference.