Reply #1: I didn't read the rant -

[paulk]

but I wouldn't give Counterpunch any credibility at all. They're a bunch of holier-than-thou uberleftists that hate Democrats and Republicans equally. They have written some very nasty things about Kerry.

I despise Counterpunch.

You don't need them to arrive at the conclusion the Dean should have run as a centrist - and that his current faux populism should be taken with a grain of salt. I always felt Dean was closer politically to Lieberman than Kerry - he saw a political opportunity to jump on the anti-war wagon and he took it.

I think he screwed himself.