Just saw pictures from a Boston rally for Howard Dean on the local PBS station. It was hilarious. The reporter was breathless talking about how much momentum Dean had, and all the pictures showed a thin crowd of over-forty white lefties (half the men had scraggly grey beards and glasses). Unless I'm greatly mistaken, some people also booed his slanders of president Bush. Not exactly a great testimony to Mr. Dean's utterly fallacious "grassroots" momentum. Dean's campaign, like George McGovern's was, is an elite moevement of the alientated white middle class. Since pretty much everybody in the media is a member of the alienated white middle class, they cant stop having collective orgasms around this guy. The nonsensical lie that there is a "Dean phenomenon" on the web is even more hilarious. There is no such thing. As I said before, most of the blogosphere is conservative (Republican and Democrat) and has no use for Dean whatsoever. Dean is a phenomena of the Democratic Party Left, which considers itself the rightful owner of the Democratic Party due to its inherent moral superiority over, well, pretty much everyone except them. And, as I have noted, Dean's idiot followers are far more extreme than Dean is (or at least the way he's talking) and are hellbent on all kinds of nasty things like supporting terrorism, violent anti-Americanism and anti-semitism, and, most of all, an unmitigated and violent hatred for democracy and the free market. Dean is the totalitarian candidate in this election and, knowing the Democratic Party, he may well be the nominee.