Are Iowa's Cows Afraid of Catching Mad Howard Disease?

Are Iowa's Cows Afraid of Catching Mad Howard Disease?

Howard Dean spent two years in Iowa. It was about two weeks too long. When they got close to the caucuses, they had second thoughts. George Will explains.

Dean is a problematic product because the fuel that launched his rocket -- a combustible brew of anger, pugnacity, moral vanity and intellectual condescension -- severely limits the apogee of his trajectory. Television enforces intimacy with candidates and presidents -- they are in America's homes nightly. Many intense Democrats have had the fun of picnicking on Dean's ideological red meat but are now flinching from the prospect of having, or of asking less-partisan Americans to have, prolonged intimacy with Dean's sandpapery personality and equally abrasive agenda.

Gratuitously abrasive. Not only does he promise to raise middle-class taxes, he breezily acknowledges that because of his protectionism, "prices will go up at your local Wal-Mart."