Clinton shot himself in the foot as well during the campaign. The difference was that the media didn't seize on it and turn it into a campaign busting issue the same way they did w/Dean and Hart. Dean's grrrrowl and Hart's affair could have been swept under the rug... or downplayed just as easily as Clinton's affair in '92. The media chose to do something differently that year.

But it does seem like the early Dem front runner tends to disappear behind some weird occurrence. Never tends to happen w/the GOP, though.

>Gary Hart and John Dean were not sacrificed, they shot themselves in the feet. And if the media helped Bill Clinton in 1992, it was the last time they ever did so. A lot of them liked him but they bent over so far backwards to prove they were unbiased, they did him a lot more harm than good.