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"and now some of Howard Dean's key strategists think they know why he fizzled after his dismal Iowa showing."

And they would be wrong.

What no Deaniac will ever admit to is the reality that Dean's campaign was doomed to fail before it began. No candidate whose relevant experience can be characterized as having the National Security experience of a Dog Catcher from Danby-Four-Corners, the economic know-how of a quarry hand from Barre, and the Foreign Policy experience of a Carney Barker at the Tunbridge Fair is going to last very long in a post 9/11 presidential campaign.

Once the public scratched below the surface to see what Dean was bringing to the table, it was inevitable that they would find him lacking. Even Democrats.....

Dean couldn't win, but if he came back to cut enough liberal support from Kerry, he could have kept the race alive and given someone like Edwards a chance. Kerry was exceptionally lucky with the timing of the primaries. Iowa and New Hampshire were quite a one-two punch. If Kerry had been in the public eye a little longer, voters would have gotten disillusioned with him. It's no reflection on Dean's worthiness, though, just an indication that the longer and closer voters look at Kerry, the less there is to be enthusiastic or positive about.

Once the public scratched below the surface to see what Dean was bringing to the table, it was inevitable that they would find him lacking. Even Democrats.....

I've got a theory, based on a hunch and some anecdotal evidence, about what happened to Dr. Scream.

A friend who lives in Iowa told me one of her neighbors had gotten a call from the Scream campaign during the height of the Scream blitz on Iowa. She was nursing an infant at the time, and told the caller so. The Scream droid became really huffy and arrogant and said they'd call back later. The woman (who by reports is a left-wing robot, really naive, and not all that bright) was so aggravated by the call that she said she'd changed her mind about who to vote for.

If you look at the phalanxes of attack droids that Dr. Scream sent into Iowa, I'll bet you'd find that they were composed of the most vile melange of arrogant leftist twits, hostile homosexual activists, pothead bozos, squealing feminists, and other single-celled life forms that ever hatched out of Satan's dirty underwear. My guess is that Scream had a chance in Iowa before his "followers" got there for the caucuses - and they then succeeded in deftly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, by systematically and methodically alienating everyone with whom they came into contact.