Reply #1: I think you are right

[CMT]

now as a president you are also correct in that Dean is no rabid liberal, the progrssive candidate in this race is Kucinich. But Dean has brought progressives in because he recognized that Democrats were going too easy on Bush and rank and file dems were mad as hell about it. His record is good as you say and his state is better off than many others. I don't see Dean as a McGovern but as another Bill Clinton. Like Clinton, I think Dean is a centrist with some profound liberal impulses.