[TommyDale]

This might be the breaking development, just in time to stop Dean in his tracks. Predictions? How many abortions have been performed?

[joyce11111]

I am waiting...hope it is good!

[go star go]

Dean's got a temper he can't control. She might be afraid of him.

[Arpege92]

Maybe she's taking a much needed vacation from her hot tempered wind bag of a husband!

[Momaw Nadon]

Until Dean's wife injects herself into the political campaign, it would be wise to avoid bashing her.

[cmsgop]

That Chick Needs A Makeover BIGTIME! Too Plain Jane for me...

[Brett66]

911 calls for abuse?

[USA4ME]

I'm not sure where Mrs. Dean is, but someone let their family idiot out of the house and it's running for president. We'll send it packing back to mommy, daddy and the servants come November.

[ImProudToBeAnAmerican]

Hmmm...perhaps Clinton and Dean both like to give their women 'the stick'...but in different ways.

[ConsistentLibertarian]

Free Republic: A place where Republicans get excited hoping there's dirt on a Democrat's wife -- their hopes fanned by her relative lack of involvement in his political life.

[Criminal Number 18F]

The last Judith Dean thread went on for hundreds of posts... people said some nasty stuff and JimRob yanked the thread.

I see this one heading the same way.

For crying out loud, let's show people that we are the mature party here. For the record, she has always refused to participate in his campaigns because she wants to tend to her patients, and, she has said, "they expect to see their regular doctor."

Also for the record, she's an internist, not a specialty commonly associated with abortions... if you find evidence of such you may post it, but it's pretty tasteless to post it on bare supposition.

I think Dean would be a disaster as President, but that doesn't mean that our goals are served by heaping abuse on his wife. She's done nothing to deserve that.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[OldFriend]

Drudge is the biggest jackass. The woman is a physician. She and Dr. Demento made it clear she will have NO role in his campaign. She does not intend to be used as a campaign prop, his word!

They have a teenaged son still living at home who has already been in trouble with the law.

Don't know what kind of person she is, but leaving home at this time would be totally unacceptable. Just my opinion!

[CyberAnt]

Dean's wife is a practicing physician. She's in Vermont keeping their practice going.

And .. when Dean first started this stuff .. she was overheard saying to him, "when are you going to stop this silly stuff and get back to work".

[Poser]

She's probably at home tending to her patients.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Judy and Howard Dean and their daughter Ann wave to the crowd at a Dean rally in Burlington, Vt., in June

[Sub-Driver]

my initial take is who cares, but the abortion angle may have some legs...if true goodbye catholic voters and the south...

[lizma]

Internist don't preform abortions and I don't remember much of Laura Bush on the campaign trail.

This women is no Hillary. We should count our blessings while we say a prayer that he doesn't have one.

[Alberta's Child]

Drudge discussed this with Ann Coulter on his radio show last night, and Ann seemed to think this has more to do with Dean than with his wife -- he won't bring her to campaign appearances because she is so much taller than he is, and he doesn't want to make his diminutive height so obvious.

[Cicero]

Drudge has been wrong before. I see no reason to bash Judith Dean. Even if she had performed abortions, which I doubt, it's not as significant as the fact that Dean himself is strongly pro-abortion.

The operative word in Drudge's headline, so far, is "Absent." So what? She has work to do and a son to take care of.

[John H K]

This might be the breaking development, just in time to stop Dean in his tracks. Predictions? How many abortions have been performed?

Ummmmm....

Anyone who cares in the slightest how many abortions Dean's wife may or may not have performed wasn't voting for Dean in the first place.

[Harley]

Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean, M.D., the Vermont internist married to the state's former governor and presidential candidate Howard Dean, has been MIA on her husband's campaign trail, and is bold in her assertion that she will remain almost as absent from his presidency and instead keep up her full-time medical practice.

I think the woman knows old Howie has no chance so she's sticking with her day job.