The Washington Establishment "Fears" Howard Dean?

The Washington Establishment "Fears" Howard Dean?

Who's afraid of Howard Dean? The bellicose former governor of Vermont has his favorite conspiracy theory. His lead-like descent into also ran can be blamed on Washington insiders who were afraid of him.


Christopher Hitchens, in his intoxicatingly tart style thinks that it was Howard Dean's own vanity and arrogance that did him in.

"It's not long since Mr. Dean publicly entreated Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to tell the other candidates to back off. Surely it was time, he argued, that his own pre-eminence be recognized and baptized and his rivals and critics made to feel petty and divisive. It's really quite difficult to imagine a more lofty "establishment" tactic: Who needs an election when we already have a designated "front-runner"? And who could possibly better represent the Beltway insider type than Mr. McAuliffe, a holdover from the bonanza years of Clintonian fund-raising and a professional organizer of the high-value ZIP-code donor?"