He is interested in reviving the 2004 primary wars.
Here is the full paragraph from what the OP is extracted.
Indeed, so strong was the stigma against those who said such things that Josh Marhsall felt compelled to insert this qualifier into the first paragraph of his column: "Now, I'm a respectable columnist. I don't want to draw rolled eyes. But think about it." And in 2004, after Howard Dean argued that the Bush administration was raising the terrorist alerts for political purposes, John Kerry proved his Seriousness by attacking Dean for making such an irresponsible claim:
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That was because, as Atrios suggested, anyone like Dean who uttered such a suggestion was demonized as being among "the less stable among us,"
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Note that Greenwald places the comment in context. We were in the middle of an electoral campaign and Kerry was asked a loaded question. He was not commenting spontaneously on Dean.
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