It wasn't that he's too negative. Nor that he is wrong in opposing the war of choice on Iraq.
It's that he stopped attacking, lost focus and became just "the front runner."
Rather than basking in endorsements and crowing about his organization, Dean
needed to repeat this mantra daily:
"President Bush is weak on terrorism. The war on Iraq was a distraction from the war on alQaeda.
President Bush is weak on terrorism. The war on Iraq was a distraction..."
And, as a minor theme:
"The President wraps himself in the flag so that you cannot see his hands. He's using them to hand the country to the big corporations."
Howard Dean needs to remember what Georges Jacques Danton said:
"Audace, de l'audace, toujours l'audace."
PS I thought it was Napoleon, but Bartlett's Quotations set me straight.