<p>December 7, 2003 -- HOWARD Dean is no fool. He is, however, not much of a thinker. His talk flows as rapidly as a mountain brook, but is no deeper than one of those. He is the candidate of America's professorate and others whose strongest passion is as much aesthetic as political - intellectual contempt for George W. Bush. But Dean's bantam-rooster pugnacity is not unlike Bush's shoulders-squared jauntiness that critics consider an enraging swagger.</p>