Peter Suderman at the Corner has apparently never heard of Howard Dean. His interest is piqued by the idea that engaged citizens might actually organize outside of a traditional campaign structure and... well, God only knows what might happen.
"But the prospect that popular political ad campaigns might no longer be officially approved leads to all sorts of interesting possibilities. How does a campaign control its message when independent parties are out there working without oversight? What happens when an election is won even partly on the basis of an ad that a candidate didn't create or approve? My inner 13 year old boy is extremely curious."
It makes sense that his inner 13 year old might be curious, given that when Peter was 13 a campaign for the Democratic nomination hadn't yet been run on exactly the principles he's talking about. But it is pretty amusing that the grown-up conservatives are just noticing this crazy phenomenon now.
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