[+/-] The talented Mr. Dean

Check out what republican Reed Davis, associate professor of political science at Seattle Pacific University, has to say about the damage Howard Dean can do to the reThuglican party:

Republicans may think that the nomination of Dean is hysterically funny — a scream, in fact, as George Will recently put it — but they are deluding themselves if they think Dean is nothing more than a wild-eyed ideologue with a temper and a cult following.

Dean brings three talents to the chairmanship that can potentially sink not just a GOP presidential candidate in 2008 but the Republican-controlled House and maybe even the Senate well before then....

Don't doubt Davis' wingnut credentials: he ran for the GOP nomination to the US Senate last year, and is a former chairman of the King County (Washington state) Republican Party.