There are some moments in politics where you watch a candidate giving a speech, answering a point in a debate, or doing something dumb in general - and realize that you just saw a political career end.
In 2004, we saw one of those moments; I remember commenting to my wife at the time, "You just saw his career end, right there." Turns out I was right; Howard Dean ended up dropping out of the 2004 Democratic primary after winning one state in the vote - his own Vermont, now best known for the daffy old Bolshevik, Bernie Sanders.
During a recent appearance on MSNBC's "The Beat" with host Ari Melber, Dean revealed how little he knows about the founding principles of our republic - and so did the host:
Watch the video, but in the event you aren't able to watch these two constitutional illiterates without giving in to the urge to throw things at the screen, I'll cover the high points for you.
Melber started off his rant:
"I mentioned the total vote because there's no other democracy where you constantly have to balance between what the people choose, and what some other arbitrary, very ancient system will allot. But it is notable that we try to do both here."
The amount of staggering ignorance in that statement is difficult to unpack, but let's have a go:
Melber then shows some recent poll results, which he says bolsters his opinion that the Electoral College is old news. I'll get back to that.
Oh, but let Howard (The Scream) Dean get started:
"We have to change it, (the Constitution) you know, our foundational electoral system was affected very much by slavery. This was an effort by the small states and the slave states to make sure they didn't lose their influence."
There is literally not one true statement in that.
By the way, Howard and Ari, it doesn't matter a damn how many polls you can come up with about whether people like the electoral system we use to elect presidents. It doesn't matter. The Constitution is what it is. You can try to change it - I predict you'll fail - but you can't just hand-wave it away. But - once again - it is always the left that wants to throw the table over and change all the rules when they don't get their way.
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Howard Dean is way past his sell date and has been since 2004. If some sagging, leftist network like MSNBC wants to bring him in to opine about something (the Constitution) he knows nothing about, that's fine; their audience doesn't know anything about the Constitution, either, and they won't notice the lack.