Folks, the Democratic party is split into two factions.
There's the Clinton/McAuliff wing and then there's the Dean wing.
More or less ALL Democrats can be described as being in one camp or the other.
It's the Clinton camp that contains more of the really heavy-duty gun-grabbers. This includes John Kerry, Chuckie Schumer, DiFi, etc.
Dean's camp contains some grabbers too, make no mistake. But it also contains people like John Edwards, who listed "self defense" as a reason to own a gun in the "gun issue" section of his website before the Dem primaries of 2004. And Dean himself, no enemy of Vermont's gunnies when he was Governor.
In some ways this is a split between urban-state and rural-state Democrats. But it's not all about that; in many ways it's a competition between those who get their money in big chunks and those who get it in small chunks.
Upshot: while I don't agree with Howard Dean on that many things, I do respect the man. Hillary...oh dear God NO!
Yucko barfo to the Maxo!