[mabelkitty]

I bet Tim Russert would disagree.

[Junior]

Howard Dean: I Beat Booze

Dummy. You're supposed to drink it, not beat it...

[L.N. Smithee]

Then the candidate revealed that sometimes his drinking caused trouble. "Actually, I drank beer. I tended to misbehave. I had a hangover the next day,” Dean told New York magazine.

Are we going to hear of apocryphal pix of Dean on top of a bar au naturel like we did about W?

[sauropod]

Am glad to see he did. Now leave him alone on the topic (to all).

There is plenty to castigate Dean on. Y'all don't need to go after some personal problem he beat in 1981. That is what the other side does.

[schaketo]

Dean later explained, "I quit drinking when I got married in 1981. I didn’t think I handled liquor well."

Calling Martin Sheen! Does this mean Howie is a “white knuckle drunk”?

[Paulus Invictus]

Dean should start drinking again as soon as posible. I can't understand the guy when he's sober. He claims to be both a conservative but then says things that place him left of Lenin. What a scum, but all of the nine RATcandidates fit the same description.

[mewzilla]

He insists that he was never arrested for drunk driving, and there is no alcoholism in his family.

Well, since Howie raises the subject of his family, how's your son doing Howie?

[Sloth]

Both prove anyone with an alcohol problem can still recover and rise to the highest levels of American society.

The moral of the story is: Chug-a-lug, kids! If the President can party hard & still get where he is, you can always clean yourself up later. Being irresponsible is the best part of being young!

[schaketo]

2.30 AM
The telephone rings at the Vermont hotel's front desk.
"Vermont hotel, good afternoon, what can I do for you ?"
"hello, this is Howie Dean, can ye tell me what time the bar opens ?"
"4 am sir" the response is.

3:00 AM
The phone rings again.
"Vermont hotel, good morning, what can I do for you?"
"Pleez ca you thzsell me when thse bar openzzz "
"Mr. Dean, I already told you the bar opens at 4 AM"

3.10 AM

Again the phone.
"Vermont hotel, good morning, what I can I do for you?"
"Zzzaay, when doezzzz sdyfyu bar open?"
"Governor Dean, this is the last time I'm going tell you: you are not going to get into the bar before 4 AM"
"But I don't wonne get in, I wonne get out!!"

[Bullish]

Dean doesn't appear to be a formidable candidate at all.

The real enemy of Bush is the left wing media scum-masters who will go into full slime mode against Dubya.

The other side of that coin is that whoever the pinko media selects as their candidate will get all the good press in the world. For free!

If Dean's their guy, they'll ride him around on their shoulders untill election day.

[Right Wing Professor]

Dollars to donuts he's admitting this now because one of his rivals has some opposition research on his drunken antics, and he's leaking it in order to defuse the story and to be able to claim it's old news. Wonder what it will be? DUI? Public indecency?

I guess we'lll find out soon enough.

[COUNTrecount]

Does this mean that he practiced medicine while drunk?

[jla]

Well, good for Dean.
And now that one of their leading candidates for a run at the Oval Office has admitted this, maybe the Left will stop with the mean-spirited attacks on Dubya's past problem with alcohol. (Though I won't hold my breath)

[johnb838]

The up and coming candidate won't say what kind of misbehavior he indulged in, adding only, "What’s funny when you’re 18 isn’t funny when you’re 30, so I just quit.” He insists that he was never arrested for drunk driving, and there is no alcoholism in his family.

I will say this as a recovering alcoholic. If you have to give it up entirely, you're an alcoholic. I suspect there's some AA in this mans past. Probably W's too. Nothing wrong with that.

[RasterMaster]

When a scumbag liberal gives up the bottle, it is a miraculous event. /sarcasm off/

Who's gonna dig up a DUI on this clown a week before the election?

[Chu Gary]

I can't remember the name of the guy in Airplane, the controller, who kept saying "Oh man, I picked the wrong week to quit drinking," "Oh man, I picked the wrong week to quit smoking pot," "Oh man, I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue" .... and on, and on, and on.

Well, I guess we're going to have to suffer thru this for another 16 months until GWB's re-election, then these cretins might actually shut their pie holes!