In an interview with the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, Howard Dean confessed as follows:

"Our model is to get around the president’s right, as John Kennedy did to Nixon." He then goes on to describe how Democrats are not really the anti-war party.

I've been telling you people for months: Dean is following the Kennedy/Nixon playbook, and plans to hove hard to the right the moment he's sure he has the nomination in place. If he gets it, that is. This is how Kennedy got around Nixon, and how Nixon later got around Humphrey.

My support is at this point a foregone conclusion: I've said many times I'd vote for a corpse before I'd vote for Howard Dean. But I do want to make note of the fact that right here in January, Howard Dean openly admitted to planning to do what some of us figured he was going to do all along.

Unfortunately, you have to pay to read the article from the Times' site, but I found this article about the interview which more or less lays out what Dean had to say, even if it gets snarky about Democrats and Republicans both while doing so.

By the way, here's a good one from a self-described liberal Democrat on why he can't stand Howard Dean either. Although I confess my politics no longer skew Democratic--I'm an independent who happens to like a lot of things about Bush--he says a lot of other things that I also agree with.

Do Democrats really want this guy as their nominee?