Reply #38: Some Dean comments I put in another thread. He was great.

[madfloridian]

Nothing really new, but very outspoken.

Bad connection at first, Dean joked that the connection was good until Zell challenged him to a duel. Laughed. He said they may never have to run my speech again, now they have Zell.

Audience laughed and applauded, Dean said he liked the audience, would take them to VT, NH, etc, and got a big cheer on that.

Maher said he may have been a loose cannon, but at least he had a cannon. Said maybe people were having buyers' remorse. Kept talking over Dean at that point. Maher was very critical of Kerry, irritates a little, but it is his show.

Dean said he and Weld knew what a good finisher he was, so he knew he would be ok.

Said the stuff they said in the convention was (and he would say it nicer than Maher) was "not true." Said it will catch up with them soon. Said Bush had 9.0 level of difficulty in the speech with 0.0 credibility.

Said Bush took Kerry's position on the war in Iraq. Said people really do want to like the US, they want to cooperate...they just don't like Bush. He destroyed all the alliances.

He said they were presenting theoretical neoconservative nonsense, and they had turned Iraq into a major danger in the world. Said Kerry would be able to enlist the help of others who knew the danger there. Maher told him to get ready for 2008, then cut him off before he could say not until 2012.