Dean Barnett, Then and Now

Then:

...when John Kerry offers a line that was either a botched joke (unlikely) or a misguided joke (much more likely), he tears away a very ugly scab of American liberalism.

Now:

Listening to the tape, it seems Romney intended it as a joke and the crowd did laugh. But it wasn’t a particularly good joke, and it definitely was an ill-advised one. ...

Obviously this isn’t a big deal.

Intellectual consistency has never been Dean's strong suit.