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Dean is a more dangerous candidate than many Freepers think. He is certainly not McGovern. McGovern has spent his whole life muttering the same platitudes, and he will never change, as he recently showed us. Dean is a chameleon, who will move to the left before one audience and to the right before another. He will certainly move well to the right if he wins the nomination next July.

I think Hillary may possibly have helped Dean at an early stage, to prevent Kerry from winning in New Hampshire, as everyone earlier expected him to do. If so, Dean has done far better than she expected and is now getting out of control. Gore's endorsement is a dynamite event and will later be seen as a crucial turning point in this campaign. Gore may be a jerk, but as the NY Times says today, his endorsement makes Dean seem "mainstream."

Now the media have to consider whether to keep kissing Hillary's *ss and kowtowing to McAliffe or to throw their support do Dean--which a lot of them would dearly like to do. If they do, then we won't hear anything more about Confederate flags and the like.

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Dean is dangerous as long as he gets to selectively script what gets on the air. Bush needs at least 3 debates against Dean to show what a shallow, scaremonger Dean really is. Dean needs to be put in front of large audiences without his bat or his cue cards.