Howard Dean Sounds Worried

Howard Dean keeps making statements that indicate to me that he's worried about John McCain. The other day he went on about how McCain was a "weak candidate", and today he's trying to convince everybody that voters are worried about his age:

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Thursday that swing voters participating in focus groups commissioned by the D.N.C. bring up John McCain's age unprompted.

DNC Chairman Howard Dean told reporters Thursday that swing voters are worried about John McCain's health and "old-fashioned" views.

At the age of 72, McCain would be the oldest newly elected president in U.S. history if inaugurated in 2009.

Referring to what Dean characterized as the party's most conservative focus group in Charleston, W. Va., the DNC chairman said "the women in that group were shocked that [McCain] believed health insurance shouldn't cover birth control pills and they were shocked about his belief in abstinence only education."

While knocking McCain's "old-fashioned" views, Dean maintained that the Democratic Party was unlikely to invoke McCain's age in the fall campaign.

They just did, and of course they'll bring up age every chance they get. They tried it against Ronald Reagan in 1984 and it probably won't work any beter this time. And those "old fashioned ideas" are the values that a majority of Americans still hold dear.



Dean has also added the refrain that he was more afraid of Romney than he is of McCain. That's just silly.