Reply #109: It' s typical of you to post a hit piece on Dean...

[Andromeda]

all because your candidate, Kerry, is not the frontrunner.

Joe Klein is not even a credible source to quote on Dean or on any of the other candidates and I'm surprised that you would treat his article as if it were.

Maybe if Kerry paid more attention to the process that you seem to disdain he might be in better standing in the polls. Judging from the problems he's been having with his campaign manager{s} and his aides it doesn't surprise me that he's slipping. Kerry won't be elected just because of a good campaign manager; if he wants the nomination he will have to have the most appeal to the voters and he will have to work hard for it. Somehow, I believe that Kerry took his campaign for granted and assumed that he would be the nominee. Ted Kennedy endorsed him, which isn't surprising since he is a fellow Senator. He has also received other endorsements I can't name off the top of my head (but I'm sure you know them by heart}.

Dean didn't start off with anything---no fancy endorsements or support from the Washington "insiders". Just a computer and a bunch of folks who believed in him.