Reply #8: Kerry and Gephardt were stuck doing the media's job.

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Dean's actual Iraq stance was always closer to Kerry's than he ever wanted people to know.

A real press would have been aware of it and held Dean to his position all these months. Instead he disingenuously used people's impression that he was the antiwar candidate to hammer Gephardt and Kerry repeatedly and become the darling of the antiwar crowd.

I think Kerry and Gephardt have been left with no choice but to try to make news and force the press to see the truth and hold Dean accountable for his falsely sanctimonious attacks when his position was never that much different from theirs.

Dean sure did capitalize on the perception all these months. Ask Kucinich supporters.