Arianna Huffington argues Howard Dean is electable

Arianna Huffington says the idea that Howard Dean is not electable is "nothing short of idiotic."

Huffington -- the one-time Republican activist-turned left-wing commentator and California gubernatorial candidate -- has now turned into a Dean devotee.

"Dean is electable precisely because he's making a decisive break with the spinelessness and pussyfooting that have become the hallmark of the Democratic Party," Huffington wrote this week in the regular column she posts on her Web site and that's published in some newspapers.