Candidate: Howard Dean Category: Intellectual Honesty Grade: F Part of Howard Dean's great appeal is that he is not just another Washington politician in perpetual campaign mode, à la Gephardt or Kerry. He's a physician, and he has supposedly developed his views about people and the world through years of seeing patients in his clinic, in addition to his experience in the statehouse. Dean, we're supposed to believe, has the human touch that his rivals lack, and adduces his policy proposals with his experiences dealing with sick people. But he sure has a way of exploiting them. The most recent...