Salena Zito takes a look at how the Democratic front-runners are all betting on the same strategy for '08 - becoming the anti-war candidate:

Howard Dean is not one of the candidates doing aerobic positioning around the war so he can become the Democrats' presidential nominee. Yet he is the guy who created the space that everyone wants to fill: the anti-war candidate.

Dean staked out that role four years ago. And while the bulk of the electorate was not ready for his anti-war message then, it was even less ready for the way he delivered it.

Who could have predicted then that Dean was at the forefront of a movement that would become the litmus test for those who would seek to be the Democrats' nominee four years later?

Many of the candidates in the mix are jockeying around the war in Iraq. And with that dance comes an exercise in linguistics...

Read the Rest, over at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Labels: Election 2008, opinion, politics, Salena Zito