Come on, everybody. Go Howard Dean!

Howard Dean -- and now Al Gore, I guess -- are on the wrong side of each of those questions,

Howard Dean did in fact offer Wes Clark a place on the ticket in a one-on-one meeting that Trippi did not attend.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. It's easy to point at me. I'm convenient.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

the most soulless place I had ever been . . It was demeaning. It was degrading. It was very lonely.