Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Peace in Our Time? The scribes at The New Republic have now gone almost nine days without taking a single swipe at Howard Dean in their TNR Primary feature. Compare that to the week of Oct. 13 when Dean received two "F"s, two "D"s and a "C" from TNR's writers, or the week of Sept. 15 when he earned two "F"s, two "C"s and a "D."
True, there was one long stretch--spanning from late October to early November (it lasted just a shade under 8 days and 2 hours)--when TNR held its fire. But the current Dean-bashing drought is longer than anything the TNR Primary has seen since the end of July.
Now, granted--this is no Major Campaign Development. But is it wrong to interpret TNR's silence as a sign that the DLC-wing of the party is starting to come to terms with the fact that Dean is likely to be the Democratic nominee?
