OK, I've laid off Romney for a while, but I can't resist the final kiss of death:
"Mitt Romney was the candidate I feared the most," [Howard] Dean said at a press conference to unveil recent internal DNC polling on McCain, the expected Republican nominee.
Dean said in the early stages of the presidential race he thought Romney was the candidate to beat, in part because of his personal wealth, and also because he viewed Romney as the most articulate candidate who would "say anything" to win the nomination.
The two men share a geographical tie: Dean was governor of Vermont from 1991-2003, while Romney was governor of nearby Massachusetts from 2003-2007. "I know him from New England and I thought he was a better candidate than Republicans thought he was," the DNC chairman said.
So what does Dean identify as McCain's key weakness?
Dean said Democrats are "absolutely going to target" McCain as a flip-flopper, citing McCain’s initial opposition to the Bush tax cuts, which he now supports, as an example.
Pure political genius, that Howard Dean. H/T