DIAGNOSING DEAN

Tom Schaller has a good piece today in slate called "Dean's Dizzying Descent." He brings three charges against both Trippi and Dean (but you'll have to read the article to get them). Here's a taste, though, on Dean:

Dean's third major error was to continue emphasizing his antiwar position above all his other positions. Dean deserves credit for showing the courage to criticize President George W. Bush about Iraq when others were too timid to do so. Though many Democrats eventually arrived at the same conclusions as Dean about the war, polls from autumn 2002 indicate that many Democrats did not start where Dean started. Put another way, the evolving views of many Democrats on the Iraq issue more closely mirror the political journey of Kerry or Edwards.