[goldstategop]

Nikita Dean has lost it, I think. I don't want a man who can't take defeat with good grace near the White House. That's regardless of party. Anger is only going to get Dean and his Kooksville supporters run off the road.

[KneelBeforeZod]

I'm curioius to see what Leno, Letterman, SNL et al do with Deans rant. maybe even the daily show...

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Nikita Dean has lost it, I think.

Darn! I was hoping he would hold it together just long enough to win the nomination before going around the bend.

[ambrose]

I seem to recall that John McCain had some pretty serious temper tantrums.

[chronic_loser]

Lifted from a Yahoo Post

They "energized" the "Core" of the dem party by their screaming hate filled tirades against Bush. They brought a few misty eyes to all their cronies at NPR, dreaming nostalgically of the days when they took over campus admin buildings and wandered aimlessly through the streets floating on four way hits of purple haze while singing "if I had a hammer." Boy, were they "energized." They found a fellow screecher. Howie Dean seemed just as pissed off as they were. It seemed they had finally found a leader who shared their hatred for the moneyed elite, who understood that the rich were evil and needed to be punished, and agreed that the biggest job for the US Military was to apologize for its past atrocities.

The problem is, the voters NEVER buy this crap. It may play well with social work bureaucrats and other government leeches, coffee shop managers and used bookstore owners, college students and professors isolated in the fever swamps of academia, and a few nutcase towns like Santa Cruz. However, even the crazy left Democratic party has a sizeable bunch of people who WORK for a living. They recognize that 1)Dean will never win and 2) if he did, it would spell disaster.

For a while, you guys could talk only to yourselves and worked yourselves up into a sort of frenzy. You did not have anything except a generalized hatred for middle america, which by and large either despises you or relegates you to the fringe. Bush iconifies this LARGE group of people for you. Decent, religious, hardworking, unapologetic for and unembarrassed by success, he is a symbol for everything you are not and never will be. Moreover, he symbolizes the group which has marginalized you, and you hate THEM thru HIM.

Last night, in rejecting Dean, you saw that even YOUR OWN PARTY has a bunch of that type in it. In reality, the bourgeoise masses rejected YOU......., again. Must be a pisser for ya.

[alloysteel]

Being "too liberal" did not have much to do with Dean's tumble in Iowa. "Too angry" was probably the determining factor. That was not mere anger, that was psychosis. Dean himself could not clarify just what he was feeling as the results of the caucus came streaming in. Here only a couple of weeks ago he was running way ahead, he was beyond assault.

All the wounds were self-inflicted. He was damaged by his dismissal of Saddam Hussein's capture, and did not retract from that. Dean hurt himself further when he turned upon a member of the audience and told him to "sit down" after a particularly stinging question. The brief appearance of his spouse on the campaign trail did little to dispel the notion that she did not seem to be very much in favor of Dean beginning this campaign in the first place.

[CIBGUY]

I'm sorry that Dean lost out! He'd have been no match for GB. Now Kerry is a tougher foe. And don't sell Edwards short. He's more focused than Kerry, who's relying on his military record. Edwards on the other hand has been more rational in his campaign messages. Bush has sure alienated a lot of people over his immigration proposals, and like I previously predicted, unless he changes his stand on that issue, this "race" isn't a foregone conclusion by any means.

[smiley]

"This Dean guy is really creepy and scary...." That was a quote from a Democrat caller on Fox News this morning....was anyone else surprised to learn that Deanomacs on his staff all wear uniforms and have crisp and snappy "processing" skills? Not only is Dean creepy,...but he reminds me of another creep who energized the youths into a manic frenzy.....

[Godfollow]

There is a positive to this angry hulk-man the Dean... that is, his supporters may become so angry themselves, that many won't show up at the polls, especially if Kerry gets the nod. I imagine Dean probably hates Kerry more than he hates Bush... wadayathink?