Bush is back at 63 percent, and Dean is faltering. This will fade, of course. But maybe Dean has peaked. Bush-hater Jon Chait at The New Republic starts an anti-Dean blog. Last time I checked, Chait was supporting Clark. Money quote:
Earlier this year I wrote a piece for TNR that defended hatred of President Bush. (I argued that hating Bush may lead to irrationality–rooting against the capture of Saddam Hussein, or, say, nominating Howard Dean–but it’s not irrational in and of itself.) But recently I’m finding that Dean hatred is crowding out Bush hatred in my mental space. It’s not that I think Dean would be a worse president than Bush–he’d probably be better, although that’s extremely faint praise given that Bush is the worst president of the last 80 years. Bush is like the next-door neighbor who lets his dog poop on your lawn and his kid shoot bb’s at your house and who says something irritating to you every day on his way to work. Dean, on the other hand, is like the ne’er-do-well who’s dating your daughter. You realize the neighbor is a worse person than the boyfriend, but the boyfriend (and the frightening prospect that he’ll become your son-in-law) consumes more of your attention.
The beginning of deep Democratic panic.
The Dish 