Is Dean a Socialist?

[Miss Modular]

A couple of nights ago, my brother was watching O'Reilly Factor in another room, and O'Whiney was categorizing candidate Howard Dean as a "socialist", and claiming that a "majority of people don't want real change in this country" (which may be true.) But...

Is Dean really a socialist? I know he's in favor of National Health care and a couple of other things, but I've always regarded him as left of center. I'm guessing that part of this is the fact that he's from Vermont, a state that's generally left of center.

O'Reilly seems to be painting Dean as Jerry Brown redux, and if that's the case, I'm guessing that makes Kucinich Stalin.