Behind the music: Dean Style
Soon it may be a crucial moment in the "Behind the Music" episode featuring Howard Dean, the political Rock Star. After months of building a grassroots campaign and positioning himself as an outsider, Dean brought in a political insider, Roy Neel, a close associate of Al Gore, to head his campaign. This prompted Dean's campaign manager, Joe Trippi, to quit. Trippi is widely credited for building the groundswell that pushed Dean into frontrunner status, but a floundering campaign needs to reinvent itself.
You can picture the "Behind the Music" montage: "After finishing third in Iowa and second in New Hampshire, the Dean campaign was floundering; Dean was running out of money and running out of time....next: the shakeup that shook the Dean campaign down to its grass roots."
What remains to be seen is whether, like many contemporary rock stars, Dean's fame and popularity only last as long as the media is not tired of him.
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Soon it may be a crucial moment in the "Behind the Music" episode featuring Howard Dean, the political Rock Star. After months of building a grassroots campaign and positioning himself as an outsider, Dean brought in a political insider, Roy Neel, a close associate of Al Gore, to head his campaign. This prompted Dean's campaign manager, Joe Trippi, to quit. Trippi is widely credited for building the groundswell that pushed Dean into frontrunner status, but a floundering campaign needs to reinvent itself.
You can picture the "Behind the Music" montage: "After finishing third in Iowa and second in New Hampshire, the Dean campaign was floundering; Dean was running out of money and running out of time....next: the shakeup that shook the Dean campaign down to its grass roots."
What remains to be seen is whether, like many contemporary rock stars, Dean's fame and popularity only last as long as the media is not tired of him.
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