You can tell them by their exhibiting three or more of the following traits:

1. Their obsessive need to be in front of a TV camera, preferably on Rupert Murdoch's network.  (Biden, Traficant, Miller, Estrich, Lieberman, Stephanopoulous, Dick Morris, etc.)

2. Their willingness to backstab their allies publicly to further their own careers.  (See #1.)

3. Past or present scandal that threatens their careers/bank accounts sufficiently so as to make selling out an attractive option (Biden = Plagiarism, Richardson = Los Alamos Scandal, Dick Morris = Toesucking, Traficant = Everything)

4. Past or present incompetence that threatens them á la #3  (Stephanopoulous = Fired as Clinton's press guy, got revenge with book and ABC-TV gig; Estrich = Shunned by sane Democrats after her horrific butchering of 1988 Dukakis campaign; now goes on FOX to give out bad advice to Democrats)

5. A feeling of jealousy/envy towards the figure or figures being attacked. (Biden to Clinton and Dean, Lieberman to Clinton, Gore, Dean, Kerry, etc.)

Good luck on this worthy endeavor!

Nano

It is any in-house democrats that are angling to damage us via damaging Howard Dean that we need to be taking action against. It is them that need to be marginalized and beaten into shutting up and licking their wounds in a corner.

We'll have no more of these people thank you very much.

I am sending those assholes why they dont write articles using labels such as  the idiocy of Gingrich, the crookedness of Delay. I will also challenge them why they never used similar or harsher terms in personally attacking individual republicans when a  lot of them indluged in their own brand of reckless personal attacks on the Clintons and even on Howard Dean in recent years. No one at TNR said Bush was a moron for cursing out a NYT reporter with a live mike. No one criticized Gingrich in such personal terms when he was shooting his mouth off in the 90s. And the kind of events Howard has been talking at are for the base who don't mind such talk. It's not like Howard Dean made such statements at the convention in front of a national audience. A LOT of republicans have made worse statements about liberals at their conservative meet and greets.

New Report from the NY Times

Washington, DC - DNC Chairman Howard Dean called on House Ethics Committee Chair Doc Hastings (R-WA) to recuse himself from the House Ethics Committee investigation of Republican leader Tom DeLay's improper relationship with super lobbyist Jack Abramoff - given the chairman's recently revealed close relationship with the scandal-plagued Washington insider.

Today, the New York Times reported that Jack Abramoff used his close relationship with Chairman Hastings as a selling point for his corporate clients. And during a Congressional debate over fair labor standards, Chairman Hastings carried the water for Abramoff's sweatshop clients.

Given these revelations about the Ethics Committee chairman's relationship with the ethically-challenged lobbyist, Dean called on Rep. Hastings to recuse himself from the committee's investigation into DeLay and his relationship with Abramoff:

(go read the rest. I don't recall Terry McAuliffe getting this kind of media attention.)

Go Howard!