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Tuesday, December 30, 2003

# Posted 12:28 AM by Ariel David Adesnik  

TPM ON DEANSPEAK: Josh Marshall blasts Howard Dean for playing the defection card again. And rightly so. (Josh also has a very good debunking of the-Kurds-captured-Saddam myth up on his website.)

Given that Dean already had to apologize once for implying he wouldn't back any other Democratic candidate, it seems like the Governor really isn't able to hide his feelings very effectively on this one.

My reading of the situation is that Dean knows intellectually that he will have to back the Democratic candidate rather than become a useful idiot for the Bush campaign, but nonetheless feels that he is the only true Democrat in the race.

Regardless of the validity of that position, Dean's transparent charade makes him look both like a liar and a Benedict Arnold. Given that Dean manages to call his own truthfulness into question on an almost daily basis, his hopes of donning the John McCain/straight-talking mantle are becoming less and less realistic.
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