Rehabilitating Howard Dean

Or, is it the Washington Post that's in danger of losing credibility?

One reason that Howard Dean is not the Democratic nominee from president is his weird paranoid reflex to see a conspiracy behind everything. When the Bush administration annouced a heightened terror alert over the weekend, the delusional Dean went nuts again. Only this time he brought the New York Times and the Washington Post along with him.

Today, the Post wonders if the Bush Administration is credible, but again, it seems that only Howard and the Post are fearful of conpiracies.

Of course, crazy as he is, Howard Dean is essential to the Kerry campaign. He's threir ambassador to the kooky fringe, without whom Kerry doesn't have a prayer.

Update, the New York Times has left the conspiracy theory crowd.

In addition to the surveillance activity, detailed in reports uncovered late last week from computer disks in Pakistan, a senior intelligence official said that "very current and recent activity on the part of Al Qaeda'' has left little doubt that "Al Qaeda is moving toward the execution stage of attacks here in the homeland.''