And just to add to that, here are some quotes by Dean off his website:
http://soli.inav.net/~njohnson/kucinich/libdeane.html
From His Own Web Pages. Finally, here are some quotes from his own Web site,
www.deanforamerica.com (as of July 8, 2003):
Capital Punishment: “I believe the death penalty should be available for extreme and heinous crimes . . .. [But it] should only be imposed after a fair trial.”
Environment: “[T]here are legitimate concerns about provisions of the [Kyoto] agreement. . . . We have to make practical trade offs.”
Homeland Security: “Governor Dean . . . would use these funds [from reversing the tax cuts] to establish a Homeland Defense Trust Fund . . . in addition to increased military, intelligence and police focus on offensive operation against terrorists . . . operating overseas . . . [and] our military special forces capabilities abroad . . ..”
National Security: “We are attacking Baghdad with a war budget. We need a war budget here at home . . ..”
Sensible Gun Laws: “I believe we should keep and enforce the federal gun laws we have . . . and then let the states decide for themselves what, if any, additional gun control laws they want . . . we need to resist attempts to tell states how to deal with guns . . ..”
Universal Healthcare: “We’ll establish an affordable health insurance plan people can buy into. . . . We shouldn’t turn our back on the employer-based system we have now.”
Welfare Reform: “Vermont was the first state to implement a statewide time-limited welfare program.”