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12/23/2003

Dancing with Dean
Arnold Kling says left-wing militants are using the Internet as their vehicle to take over the Democratic Party - and Howard Dean is their hood ornament.

Howard Dean emerged as a candidate of the left-wing militants the way that the Cha-Cha Slide emerged as a staple on the Bar Mitzvah circuit. It's not that the Cha-Cha Slide means something to Jewish culture. It's just that there is a Bar Mitzvah circuit that needs a silly dance. When the Macarena craze finally died out - thank goodness - something else came along to take its place - unfortunately.

The political movement of affluent, college-educated, angry liberals needed a candidate for the same reason that Bar Mitzvah DJ's need a way to pull people onto the dance floor. Howard Dean is the left's Cha-Cha Slide.
And he and his Internet-fueled campaign are hastening the nation's dangerous slide toward mobocracy, says Kling. Read the whole Kling.