Slate's brief guide to the many faces of Dean

[w4rma]

Dean Is the New McCain … And the new Carter, and Goldwater, and McGovern, and Reagan …

Brown may be the new black, but Howard Dean is the new Brown. Jerry Brown, that is: a former governor who seems impervious to the tempering influence of focus groups. Or maybe Dean's the new George McGovern: an anti-war candidate destined to destroy his party. Or perhaps he's the new John McCain: a tightly wound straight-shooter known for his (usually) winning candor.

Dean, the once-obscure Democratic presidential candidate who doubled up on the covers of Newsweek and Time this week, has officially gone mainstream. But it's not like Dean came out of nowhere, campaign-watchers agree. He came straight out of the history books—they just can't decide which one.

So, here's Slate's brief guide to the many faces of Dean.
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http://slate.msn.com/id/2086718/

[Woodstock]

1. Enough with the labels - Dean is Dean

If only the lazy assed media would do a little work and just present Dean to the people, instead of trying to label him away... but then again, labelling is what Rove and the DLC wants, therefore their faithful servants in the media must comply.

[AngryYoungMan]

2. You are missing the point of the article.

The article has a wry tone that's very engaging. (It's the kind of thing Esquire magazine used to do in the 'seventies, if that means anything to you.)

The article indicates sardonically how many OTHER people are hastening to compare Dean to others, and provides a chart of what they're saying and what they're implying by the comparisons.

Go ahead; take a look.

[Woodstock]

4. LOL - I was not criticizing to the article - I was agreeing with it

Go ahead, and put on your thinking cap, sir, before you assume people have theirs off.

And yes, I was around and kicking in the seventies, too. :eyes:

[AngryYoungMan]

5. I beg your pardon...

...and I accept the scold.

We Dean supporters have become rather defensive, I guess...

[Woodstock]

6. Actually, the media/DLC/Rovian label for us is "angry" - right?

Funny thing is, most of my anger is for the sheer stupidity of the media and the DLC. If only they'd get their heads out of their bottoms.

[Woodstock]

3. Roger Simon got it right

Apart from the stupid "Dean is far left" nonsense - which instantly proved their lazy asses never did a jot of work to read item one of his governing record - the funniest things said were:

"Dean Democrats risk further alienating if they run again on raising taxes—as Walter Mondale did in 1984."

Come again? The taxes were just cut, mainly for the wealthiest 1%. Repealing them is raising them?

"Dean's opposition to the Patriot Act could be politically lethal."

If there's one complaint I hear ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM - far right to far left - it's that everyone hates the freaking Patriot Act.