[+/-] Can Dean help win red states?

Scott Maddox, the Florida Democratic chairman, thinks so:

"The only knock against Howard Dean is that he's seen as too liberal," Mr. Maddox said. "I'm a gun-owning pickup-truck driver and I have a bulldog named Lockjaw. I am a Southern chairman of a Southern state, and I am perfectly comfortable with Howard Dean as D.N.C. chair."

"What our party needs right now is energy, enthusiasm and a willingness to do things differently," he said. "I think Howard Dean brings all three of those things to the party."

You know the country has become radicalized when Dean, a pro-gun fiscal conservative, is perceived as "liberal".