I wrote a column about his “Meet” performance for tomorrow. It wasn’t necessarily awful by Dean standards. But I’m always struck–per Jonah’s e-mailer earlier–how little he knows. He doesn’t know how to pronounce Abramoff. He doesn’t know the cap for the Social Security payroll tax. Etc. These are things you just pick up by following the debate, even pretty loosely. I’ve always had the sense of Dean as someone who is smart, but doesn’t know the things he doesn’t know, and therefore doesn’t have the patience or humility to–at the very least–get properly briefed on them.