"This guy is nothing more than a rable rousing contrarian."

I wouldn't say that's all he is but for right now I think it would be hard to debate that's not his favorite tactic. The thing is he does have plenty to go after the Bushco guys about. I think this mad cow thing was a stretch to add a little diversity to the mix. Probably shouldn't have gone there...but I'm sure some advisor schemed it up and it sounded good at the time.

Again, greed remains the heart of the matter (Gene's point) and the party that lines up with this particular special interest to line their pockets is the Republicans and that probably drove the idea in the Dean campaign to fire this shot.

I do think MJG had a good point that all this stuff will take a new twist once we have found the contender on the Democrat side (ok so it looks to be Dean) and we start heading to the main event.

Lastly, Pat if you move east you may want to choose Maine. Massachusetts is far too liberal and Dale I think has a Hanoi Jane outfit as well...he claims it's a Halloween costume. Hey, you know John Kerry is on record saying the Republicans have been contributing to the Dean campaign...that's how bad they want him.

                                                                  Reg