Jonah on Howard

Jonah Goldberg on The Corner:

Dean is the definitive rump-party figurehead for the Democrats. He pleases only those people who represent the parties problems and he further alienates precisely those people it needs to attract. It wasn't completely obvious this was going to be the case when they picked Dean, but it is now. He's turning away donors rather than attracting them and he's accentuating stereotypes while trying to rebut them. Indeed, the way he rebuts them -- talking religion and the like -- seem only to demonstrate that Democrats cannot speak convincingly on such issues. Of course, many can. But he can't and he's setting the image for the party.

And, as Daniel at Bloggledygook spotted, the three top DNC fundraisers quit this week, reflecting a "growing concern over what they call Dean’s lack of attention to major donors." So long as he keeps turning his employers into the "Don't Need to Convince" anyone's, Dean and the Democrats will stay stuck in the sixties--and lose.