Reply #14: I've been reading Farmer for decades. I have always found

[Kahuna]

him to be fair and reasonable. While I don't agree with him 100% of the times I can usually learn at least one useful thing from reading him. As you can see from his photo, he is no youngster. Farmer is from the old school of political punditry and knows his stuff. Farmer is a liberal and has been since long before many of you were born. You will not scare him off with your diatribes. He knows enough to expect it. IMHO, Farmer has called this one exactly right. I've been thinking the exact same thing about Dean. We had bushco on the ropes. Then suddenly, bush is up nearly 10 pts in the polls. I'm sure that Bush is thankful to Dean for at least some of his rebound. As Pat Buchanan put it, Dean is the gift that keeps on giving.