Bob Ewegen, deputy editor of the Denver Post editorial page, has his end of year column in today's paper. Titled "Highlights, Lowlights of 2003," it's the sort of light throwaway thing you'd expect, except...Whoa!
Lowlight: Howard Dean. To quote Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen: "Appearing on a radio show earlier this month, Dean was asked why the president might be suppressing information about what the government knew before the (Sept. 11) terrorist attacks. Here is what he said:
"'The most interesting theory that I have heard so far, which is nothing more than a theory, I can't think - it can't be proved - is that he was warned ahead of time by the Saudis. Now who knows what the real situation is.''
I knows, Howard - and so does every American voter who is not a permanent resident of the Far Left Funny Farm and Paranoia Palace. Dean's incredible canard accomplished the seemingly impossible feat of taking American presidential politics to a new low.
Ewegen's not exactly a raving right-winger. He strikes me as a pretty much a straight shooter.