Dean - Conservative At Heart

According to a new book by the reporters who covered his administration, Dean's fiscal record and policies were those of a textbook conservative—and Dean would be proud to say so.

This fiscal conservatism extended to all areas in government except one: health care. When Dean became governor, prior state administrations laid the groundwork for what would become one of his biggest selling points in 2003, his expansion of state Medicaid and other social welfare programs to extend health care to children and young families. Dean has spoken of this achievement on the presidential campaign trail, adding a flinty Yankee asterisk: that it's cheap to increase care for people who are basically healthy.

[Opponents and the press speak of Dean] as a 'loud, eager-to-spend Liberal,' Davis said. "A lot of guys that I speak to—they say if they can get him so wrong, what are they saying [that's wrong] about the other guys?"

Howard Dean: A Citizen's Guide to the Man Who Would Be President

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