Dean has indicated, essentially, that he would resume President Clinton's failed policies toward North Korea, continuing to bribe them into discontinuing their nuclear program, when we know this policy gave us the worst of both worlds: we lost our money and North Korea continued to produce their nukes.
And Dean has done anything but inspire confidence with his inconsistent positions on SDI. Sometimes he says he would abolish the program and other times that he would only reduce funding for it.
Dean will eventually have to deal with the reality that if he had been commander in chief, Saddam would still be in power. Potentially even more troubling for him is his earned image as a borderline pacifist. Former national security adviser Samuel Berger said he believed that Dean "would be willing to use military force if called for." What? You mean there's sufficient doubt that the Democrats' leading candidate for commander in chief would use military force to defend the United States' strategic interests that Berger felt compelled to dispel it?
Dean has also made some remarkably ridiculous statements that he'll have to explain. He suggested that bin Laden could be innocent. He cited reports that President Bush knew in advance of the September 11 attacks, then quickly denied subscribing to the idea, a ploy even many liberals admitted was intended to smear President Bush. And, Dean said that America was no safer for having captured Saddam Hussein. Finally, The Washington Post reported that Dean admitted in an interview that while he planned to give his base the red meat it craved, he (wouldn't) be talking like this during the general (election)." Quite an admission.
As if all this weren't bad enough for Mr. Dean, understand that a recent Washington Post-ABC News survey revealed that most Democrats know "hardly anything" or "nothing" about his policy positions. And don't forget that the very Democrats who love Dean because of his staunch liberalism deny he's a liberal. Go figure.
Did I mention that President Bush is very strong in the polls right now and is riding a booming economy, brought on by his tax cuts that Mr. Dean advocates repealing?