Howard Kurtz on the Dean juggernaut:

It’s the dream of every insurgent candidate to confound the experts, catch fire at the right moment, wow the world by winning the New Hampshire primary and making the cover of Time and Newsweek.

If memory serves, the last insurgent candidate to ‘catch fire’ and make the covers of Time and Newsweek in the same week was Steve Forbes back in 1996, with images of the candidate tearing up tax forms. So before Dean fans get too excited about a guy who is “hot and getting hotter,” they’d be wise to keep the Forbes experience in mind.

I do love Dean’s honesty though:

“We’ve caught fire and, frankly, not with anything we’ve done that’s so brilliant.” Couldn’t agree more.