Knowing when to be quiet.

This morning I saw Howard Dean on television. There are two people who I wish had had the foresight to have kept a lower profile during this election campaign -- John Kerry and Howard Dean.

The following is from today's The Washington Post:

"I think, frankly, people don't believe the president anymore" when it comes to the war, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, echoing other party leaders, said in an interview. "We are telling people if they want to stay the course, vote Republican. If you want a change of direction, vote Democrat."

GOP tracking polls . . . have shown a slight but steady uptick since Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), in what he called a botched joke, suggested that uneducated people end up fighting in Iraq -- a comment that infuriated top Democrats . . . .