I don't have to bash Dean today...

Because the Christian Science Monitor does it for me...

"Mr. Dean fudges the issue of more federal controls by saying any new gun laws should be up to the states - hardly a sound policy when guns easily travel across state lines."

and so does Will Saletan...

"Dean might want to stop saying of Bush, as he did again Saturday night, "The word quota … is a race-coded word." Nobody who uses the phrase "Confederate flag" to attract the support of white racists has any business complaining about somebody else using the word "quota."

and E.J. Dionne...

"One top aide to a Dean rival noted that House and Senate Democrats in the South are alarmed at the damage having Dean at the top of the ticket could do the party in their region."

and Stuart Rothenberg...

"...among operatives, Rothenberg says, the thinking is that while Dean may bring in 2 or 3 million new voters with his brash, "truth-telling" style, he may alienate 5 or 6 million others."

Some days this is almost too easy...