You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.
Howard DeanAmerica is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.
Howard DeanThe pitfall of what's happening in the media is if you're under thirty, you get your news from the Internet and The Daily Show, and there's not much discrimination between what they find on the front page of The New York Times and what they find on the Internet. That's not a bad thing, in the sense that people don't get spoon - fed anymore.
Howard Dean