HOWARD A LIAR? - SAY IT ISN'T SO!

Remember Howard Dean had a huge online “vote” to decide if he should opt-out of the public campaign financing he was so enamored with last spring? According to the press release on his website, it was an overwhelming 85-15 percent vote to opt-out. Being a man of the little guy, the one who always listens to the people, Howard opted out.

Liar – and we knew it at the time.

Today’s Washington Post has a little ditty on the “campaign embeds” – those reporters who follow a campaign around on it’s endless stops. The very first two paragraphs goes like this:

“Marc Ambinder says he spent so many hours with Howard Dean that he knew a month in advance that the candidate would pass up federal funding and raise the campaign cash himself.

You build enough trust with the candidate and his staff that they begin to act normally around you, even though you're a member of the press," the ABC News producer says.”

What?!?!? How could Marc know how all of those people would vote?!? It couldn’t be that Howard just had the dumb vote for show, all the while knowing what he was going to do, one way or the other, could it?

No, of course not.