Dean: Well that was ugly

Not the numbers, the speech. The numbers would have been fixable.

I caught it watching the Tweety and Fineman revue--AKA: Hardball with Chris Matthews--and I have to say it's the first time I've agreed with those two and Mike Barnicle in ages: Is Dean that dumb, or just that undisciplined?

To give national voters their first, unfiltered impression of you, playing the role of, I dunno, a pissed off shop steward rallying the boys to go beat the shit out of some scabs.... well, it was amateur nite. [link-cspan] (Realvideo)

Edwards by comparison seemed like RFK, or Clinton. Kerry seemed like Kerry, after a B12 shot, but still Kerry.

What a set of bookends. As an ad creative director with not a few TV spots under his belt, I'd have a field day with Dean if I were a republican, not a democrat, advertising hack. Tonite's video is gonna have a very long shelf-life, $40 million and X00,000 Dean volunteers or not.