[RonDog]

The breathless tone of Samantha M. Shapiro's New York Times Magazine cover story on the Dean Campaign, "The Dean Swarm," suggests that Ms. Shapiro hasn't covered many presidential campaigns. Either that, or the arrogance of the Dean Campaign is equal to the arrogance of its candidate.

Every presidential campaign of each party draws a huge host of true believers from a variety of walks of life. They join up, often for odd reasons, and form intense attachments because presidential campaigns are intense adventures, especially if the volunteers are young.

For most of them, it will be their first dive into the passions of electoral politics. As in every other campaign before this one, they will believe they have stumbled on a new, strikingly unique group energy... - Hugh Hewitt

From www.nytimes.com [registration required]:

The Dean Connection

By SAMANTHA M. SHAPIRO

Published: December 7, 2003

ast February, Clay Johnson, 26, took a trip from Atlanta to the Dominican Republic to visit his girlfriend, Merrill, who was studying linguistics at a university there. He carried an engagement ring in his pocket, but when he arrived, he said, Merrill was cold and distant, and he never gave it to her. Before he left, Merrill told him that she didn't love him anymore.

Ben Stechschulte for The New York Times
Jilted Techies for Dean, Vermont chapter:
Zack Rosen and Clay Johnson refocus their devotion.

He returned to his apartment in Atlanta, where he worked as a freelance technology consultant. His place was also serving as a storage space for Merrill's possessions, in boxes, and as a temporary home for her two cats. He was allergic to the cats. He stripped to his underwear, lay on the floor in a fetal position and remained there for days, occasionally sipping from an old carton of orange juice. ''I was completely obliterated,'' he says. ''I didn't know something like that could actually cause physical pain.''

Johnson's friends kept calling, trying to think of something that would get him out of the house. Finally they hit on one: Howard Dean...

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[Mike Darancette]

He stripped to his underwear, lay on the floor in a fetal position and remained there for days, occasionally sipping from an old carton of orange juice.

And this piece of work is one of the vaunted Dean activist?

[BenLurkin]

Good old Hugh. Gotta love him. He is such a .

Hugh predicted a big George W. Bush LANDSLIDE in 2000. (But to be fair, that was before the news came out about W.'s drunk driving arrest.)

Hugh, if you're lurking: keep up the good work . . . and listen to Frank G- about Taiwan. Frank knows the score.

Oh, and GO BROWNS!

[Mr.Atos]

He stripped to his underwear, lay on the floor in a fetal position and remained there for days, occasionally sipping from an old carton of orange juice.

Geez this guy's going to be on suicide watch come next November. Did his friends really do him any favors?

My friends took away the vodka bottle, kicked me in the tail, and introduced me to the new upstairs neighbor... the always fetching, now Mrs. Atos.

Thank you, John, for the Ping!

[cookcounty]

" He stripped to his underwear, lay on the floor in a fetal position and remained there for days, occasionally sipping from an old carton of orange juice. ''I was completely obliterated,'' he says. ''I didn't know something like that could actually cause physical pain.''

Johnson's friends kept calling, trying to think of something that would get him out of the house. Finally they hit on one: Howard Dean..."

You know, you're not supposed to just make up whacked-out idiotic stuff like this and attribute it to the NY Times-----you did made up, right? .......right?