What do we expect?
Dean leads a party of pu%%sys, socialists, pacifists, redistributionists, malcontents, losers. When the going gets tough; run, hide, scrounge, bull-sh*t,lie. America, to quote Patton, is a country of Winners. These clowns would put our country in terrorist peril in lieu of defending it. Scoop Jackson Democrats? Dead - gone - buried. The GOP has got to get with the program; we are fighting losers, malcontents, demagogues, hypocrites. Step up, veto spending, defend your country, stomp on a hypocrite.
This doesn't sound like Dean is afraid of debate. He probably just wanted the usual one on one fellatio Democrats normally get on these shows.