Why Dean is not any of the above...
Dukakis:
If Bernie Shaw asked him what would happen if his wife was raped and murdered, I believe Howie would demand an apology and look like he was going to jump the podium and clock him one. If Dukakis had done that he may have won the election.
Gore:
No one can say a man who wears 20 year old suits is insecure about himself or who he is (though he needs to watch the hipster metrosexual kind of comments).
Mondale:
Dean is not going to allow his positions to be characterized by the Republicans as 'tax and spend'-- a lot of the tax and spend meme comes from that '84 race.
McGovern:
I think Dean has an ability (maybe as a Doctor) to connect with ordinary people in a way McGovern did not. God forbid he picks Clark as his running mate and Clark cries.