Reply #21: Dean's campaign self-destructed. [View All]

[TheWraith]

Yes, the "scream" was overplayed, but it was an incredibly stupid thing to do in the first place. The media looks for a story, and when you lob them a huge fucking meatball like that one, you've got to expect that they're going to chew on it for awhile.o Dean's campaign really had almost no idea how to operate in the real world, and made a bunch of critical errors that led to the defeat in Iowa. After that, it was practically over.

The Republicans were going to smear whoever ran against them. Dean would have gotten tagged with no military service, civil unions, no foreign policy, north-eastern liberal elite, yak, yak, yak.