This Democrat thinks he can win in 2016 as the anti-Obama

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258. I don't think Couric was a Republican in 2004

Of course, I could be mistaken, but I don't think she was.

Whether she is or not, Kerry was the 2004 primary candidate of the DLC (once Lieberman dropped out--though Lieberman never had a chance anyway) and therefore of the Democratic establishment at the time; and I believe that the media treated Dean as it during the primaries did because of that.

Without knowing that--or very much about politics at all--at the time, I was very happy to vote for Kerry in that primary and even happier to vote for him in the general. Still, even though Kerry was "my" candidate and I was naive, I noted, was shocked by, what the media did to Dean.

But you are absolutely correct that Palin impaled herself during the Couric interview on relatively easy questions, like which newpapers do you read.