Missteps Pulled a Surging Dean Back to Earth

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[Pikamax]

Missteps Pulled a Surging Dean Back to Earth By JODI WILGORENand JIM RUTENBERG

Published: February 1, 2004

itting on a mirror-ceilinged bus normally used by Aretha Franklin, Howard Dean searched for something to say to 1,000 screaming supporters about his surprising third-place showing in the Iowa caucuses.

His campaign brain trust — the longtime loyalist from Vermont, the Washington media guru — choreographed an entrance into the ballroom near Des Moines where Dr. Dean would whip off his suit coat and roll up his sleeves, ready to fight the next round. Senator Tom Harkin, stunned that no one had prepared notes for a concession speech, urged the candidate to be upbeat.

Then, just as Dr. Dean headed onstage, his campaign manager, Joe Trippi, offered a snippet of rocker philosophy: "Freedom's just another for word for nothing left to lose."

Actually, Dr. Dean still had plenty to lose that night, when his shouted speech turned his highflying candidacy into late-night joke fodder.

[Brimack34]

NO NO NO The Media hyped him up and they tore him down.
He was a victim of the media game.

[tkathy]

It's all Bush's fault. And the jews.

[Diogenesis]

He was destroyed by the New York Times, as marriage was, too [by Anthony Lewis and his Judge-green card-wife].

[Focault's Pendulum]

Joe Trippi, offered a snippet of rocker philosophy: "Freedom's just another for word for nothing left to lose."

That should be clarified.. It's a ballad made famous by a rocker who choked to death after a heroin overdose.