March 7, 2003:
"Howard Dean committed Friday to taking taxpayer dollars to finance his presidential campaign.... He promised to make it an issue in the Democratic primaries if any of his rivals decide to skip public financing, as President Bush did en route to winning the Republican nomination in 2000. 'It will be a huge issue,' Dean said. 'I think most Democrats believe in campaign finance reform.'"November 8, 2003:
Front-Runner Howard Dean became on Saturday the first Democratic presidential candidate ever to reject taxpayer money and avoid the accompanying spending limits, saying he had to act to compete against President Bush's cash-rich campaign.
``We have supported public financing, but the unabashed actions of this president to undercut our Democratic process with floods of special interest money have forced us to abandon a broken system,'' the former Vermont governor said at a news conference.
That's a pretty big leap... about as long and wide as, say, changing his mind about the "war" in Iraq... once he gets to play with the toys.
Just a moderately huge issue, I guess. And that still supports my new pet theory about Dean, because it makes him all the more Bush-like. Howard Weenie, the Georgie wannabe.
I'm telling you, Dems, if you wanna win - run Dean. And throw Clark in there as his perfect running mate - you'll get all those Repuglicans who are caught on the horns of a dilemma, sinking fast in the Bush boat and no tolerable life ring.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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