It's been a couple days since I bashed Dean...

...but plenty of others have taken up the slack.

Like these undecided voters in New Hampshire.

"Joan Szoak of Windham: “I just find in Dean a little bit of that arrogance, that it’s my way or the highway. That’s the only thing that bothers me about Dean.”

Democrat Aime Labrie, 78, of Manchester: “Dean is ahead but he gives you the impression he’s not humble enough.” "

Or these Iowa voters.

"Lester Jones, a retired farmer and insurance salesman in Carroll, Iowa, who is backing Gephardt, said, “I don’t think Dean has got the experience. That’s what bothers me with him...There’s been some things he’s said that he has had to retract. So he probably doesn’t think things through as far as he should before he makes a statement.” "

Chris Fink, a retired high school chemistry teacher from Council Bluffs, has a son in the National Guard who is serving in Iraq.

Uncommitted to a candidate, Fink says she is “intrigued by Dean” but has doubts about his foreign policy bona fides. “Whenever you have somebody who is going from state government to national government you wonder about the foreign policy angle."

One of Fink’s former students, Paul Shomshor, is now a member of the Iowa state Legislature...In June Shomshor told MSNBC.com that if Dean won the nomination, “that would pull the party so far left” that the Democrats might lose to Bush in November. “You have to nominate somebody that can win,” Shomsor said then."


Or The New Republic.

"...if we took Dean at his word, we wouldn't even have a judiciary. Both sides would be locked in a cycle of vengeance, where they blindly oppose each other's nominees, leaving a massive void on the bench.

And if this is any indication of the style of a Dean presidency, it is a recipe for the most gridlocked Washington since the Civil War.

Finally, he's being extremely ungracious to the Senate Democrats, who have done an extremely effective job in fighting Bush on the judiciary...So is this what it means to be part of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party? You demogouge the failings of your own teammates for cheap political points?"

And yet another New Hampshire voter.

"Cynthia Capodestria, of Sanbornton...thinks Kerry is the candidate who can win.

“I really only care about beating George Bush,” Capodestria said. “All my friends are voting for Dean, and Dean bugs me.

I don’t think he’s going to be able to sell himself to the whole country. He’s too New York. (Kerry) has got the poise.”"