The Anti-Bush (by Novak)

Novak:
"What makes Dean so distasteful to his Democratic detractors is that he is not part of the establishment and unlikely ever to become part of it. The native New Yorker has become a flinty Vermonter, looking a little like a Calvin Coolidge of the left.

But how to stop him from being nominated? Former Clinton (and current) Lieberman pollster Mark Penn predicts Dean would lose 49 of 50 states to Bush, while a former Clinton colleague (unwilling to be quoted by name) told me: "Mark is wrong. Dean would only lose 40 states." This "he can't win" argument did not stop Barry Goldwater, George McGovern, Ronald Reagan or Jimmy Carter from being nominated, and the last two actually were elected. The party faithful liked the purity of those candidates and did not care about electability, and the same might be proved true of the Anti-Bush."

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Well, well.. interesting. Considering the source.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030807.shtml

But, to me, he doesn't seem a lock - step republican, more a realist. I must have that book on the Left Coast advertised under the editorial, for sheer idiocy entertainment.

15 points behind in the polls; when he hired a new consultant and went back to his democratic roots with a populist message, he went ahead of Bush. so I wouldn't pay much attention to what Mark Penn says