PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: Eating their own! Howard Dean snaps, won’t support the DCCC if they fund pro-life Democrats.

—Twitchy, today.

Chaser: “I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can’t beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.”

—Howard Dean on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, as quoted in a November 7, 2003 Boston Globe article titled, “Dean’s appeal to South cuts across race.”