Right, left, or Bush-Lite?

Columns: Attacks on Dean may leave voters dizzy

Think about it - the two Democratic presidential candidates who are the talk of the party are a former small-state governor who is being tagged as George McGovern on foreign policy and as Newt Gingrich on Medicare, and a retired Army general who voted for Nixon, Reagan and probably George W. Bush. That says a lot about the other eight candidates, especially the four senators and two congressmen in the contest. If Clark’s entry shakes up the race and slows Dean’s surge, as many Democrats are hoping, it will be less a rejection of Dean’s candidacy than a vote of no confidence in the Washington Democrats in the race.

As I like to describe certain sport teams, this is incompetence meeting ineptitude — Clark’s candidacy and Dean bashing by proposing he is far to either side of the spectrum.