Why is Howard Like a Tulip?

Over at The Weekly Standard, Jonathan Last has a sort of eulogy for Howard Dean:

It is already an established cliché that Dean's candidacy resembles a dot-com company of the 1990s. It's a cliché because it's true. The campaign began as a high concept--overt anger at the president and opposition to the war--and quickly found itself drowning in riches from its IPO to the Democratic base. It then used a wave of fawning media coverage to establish the illusion of inevitability.

The Dean campaign had organization, money, and a message. It had everything except a plausible theory of how it could win votes from a wide cross-section of Democratic voters.

Keep an eye open for abandoned "Dean for President" sock puppets.