This may have been covered in the long thread about Carter's impending endorsement, but I'm on dialup and didn't want to load hundreds of posts! And this is a serious question, not a troll, from a curious and concerned observer. Disclosure: right now, I back Clark.
I am not an activist, never involved in party stuff (kind of an anti-Bob Johnson, larf!) and am curious about a seeming contradiction in the Dean campaign. He goes on at length against the old party, Washington insiders, etc, yet gets endorsements from big time insiders -- Gore, Bradley, and now, we assume, Carter.
How long can he claim to be a grassroots outsider while garnering these endorsements? To someone on the outside looking in, these claims contradict one another. At some point, with enough endorsements, Dean will appear to be the establishment's choice.