Dean's mouth gets him into more trouble. He looks at the least disingenuous, and at the most like a liar, when he says statements like these:

At one point yesterday, reporters chased Dean down a hall to press him on his claim, in 2000, on the tapes that "special interests" control the Iowa caucuses - an insult to the Iowa voters he's courting for the Jan. 19 ballot.

"I have never believed that," Dean insisted.

Stand by your words Doc. This statement makes him sound just plain scary:

The former Vermont governor even had to issue a statement denying he's sympathetic to Hamas after a 1998 tidbit on the Dean Tapes found him saying there were "good and bad" aspects to a Hamas takeover of the Palestinian Authority. His explanation: "If they have to run a quasi-state, they may actually have to be more responsible."

Rationalizing Hamas is not one of the things I look for in a candidate.