This Should Satisfy Krugman

This Should Satisfy Krugman

The Bush re-election team has decided on a campaign strategy that would portray Howard Dean as "reckless, angry and pessimistic."

That would certainly more truthful than the average Paul Krugman column.

As a Bush strategist put it, Dr. Dean's rivals are "doing a great job for us" with their increasingly tough attacks on him.

"Voters don't normally vote for an angry, pessimistic person to be president of the country," Matthew Dowd, a senior Bush adviser, said as he pressed the anti-Dean theme this week in an interview at Mr. Bush's re-election campaign headquarters. "They want somebody, even if times are not great, to be forward looking and optimistic."