http://www.bopnews.com/archives/000122.html#000122
Broder gripes that the current election has not let "the people" decide who the next President will be. And says that Dean is like George Bush Jr. in that he has stopped the people from deciding. I like reading Broder, he's one of the few columnists worth reading.
Amd in this case's also got it exactly wrong: the way Bush was picked has nothing to do with what happened in 2003, and instead represents the griping of an insider - reflecting the griping of many, many, many insiders, about the rise of the new politics. He wants to go back to the good old days - when a mob of voters, each one without any real influence, got to choose between packaged candidates that insiders put together. He wants consumer-voters, rather than citizen-participants.
And while I am sure I am going to take the heat for this: he's being undemocratic and he is dead flat wrong.