''Dean: A good fighter for Dems''

Red state columnist Gene Lyons (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) wonders what would have happend if Dean had been the nominee: "Would Dean have done better? That's impossible to say. But win or lose, he definitely would have gone down fighting. That's why his recent election as chair of the Democratic National Committee strikes me as good news. If nothing else, Dean's a scrapper, and the Democrats definitely need one."-from his column today reprinted in the Decatur Daily Democrat (IN),