MORE BREDESEN ENTHUSIASM, via the WSJ’s Political Diary:

Howard Dean said the way back to power lies in appealing to voters with confederate flags on their pick-up trucks. He’s dropped the imagery but kept the message, showing up in Nashville this week to shine a spotlight on a successful southern Democrat, Tennessee’s Gov. Phil Bredesen. “My idea is to get this state a lot more purple than it is right now,” he told students at Vanderbilt.

They’re pessimistic about his chances.

UPDATE: More analysis of Dean’s speech, here. And also here, from Roger Simon.