1117 Just don't call him late for lunch

Howard Dean is quite successful at getting himself and the DNC into the news--like the ignored toddler who will take any attention he can get, even negative, just to get noticed. David Freddoso over at NRO uses Dean's pearls to turn a nice phrase:

". . . now I don’t think it’s spin anymore. Howard Dean is just totally nuts.”

"[he] calls Republicans “evil,” “corrupt” and “brain-dead” “liars” who “never made an honest living in their lives” and “are not nice people.”. . . But Dean assures us, “We’re not going to stoop to the kind of divisiveness that the Republicans are doing.” Quite a relief!"

"There is much legitimate debate over what makes for a good party chairman, but one criterion that nearly everyone can agree on is that he should not be his party’s greatest liability."

"When Dean starts speaking, even Barney Frank gets nervous and starts looking for the door."

"Dean will have to do the same thing [as the RNC with $30.1 million] with only $7.4 million and a foot wedged tightly in his mouth."

". . .the good doctor has worked with such zeal alienating voters and contributors that Republicans can only sit back and enjoy."

Don't get too smug guys. This looks too easy.

Update, June 12, LA Times: "Recycling old saws about the GOP being the party of the rich ignores the fact that one of the reasons the Democrats have been faring so poorly in recent elections is that they've lost the white working-class vote. If Dean spent his time pointing to inequitable tax policies that punish the middle class and reward the rich, or dwelling on the costs of restricting stem cell research, that would be one thing. Instead, he is indulging in outdated caricatures of Republican voters. So far, Dean has done a good job of pulling the party together — the Republican Party."