I Give Howard Dean Credit for One Huge Thing [View All]

[Yavin4]

Before him, very, very few nationally known Democrats nor left-leaning media pundits ever questioned nor criticized Bush on anything. We were all told to "support the president". Dean was the first nationally prominent Democrat to challenge Bush, and show the rest of the party that by standing up to Bush, you could find a large and sympathetic audience.

Since Dean's national rise, other Democrats have now jumped on the bash Bush bandwagon and even the media has at least started questioning Bush more on the WMDs, the cost of the war, and the horrible state of the economy.

Dean is transforming the Democratic leadership away from the "politeness first" approach of Tom Daschle and the Congressional Dems and has moved them towards a hard charging, real opposition party that's no longer afraid of challenging Bush.

Win or lose, we all owe a huge debt of gratitude towards Howard Dean.