An excerpt from Dean's article:

"Arizona Senator John McCain recently completed a “biographical” tour of the country in an effort to keep his name in the media as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, given the fact that Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are currently consuming much of the newsroom oxygen. McCain ended that tour in Prescott, Arizona.

A Prescott newspaper noted the symbolism of McCain’s final speech at the historic Yavapai County Courthouse. This was the location where McCain’s Republican predecessor, Barry Goldwater, started all his bids for office. McCain likes to refer to himself as a Goldwater Republican. Accordingly, the McCain campaign welcomes and invites editorials like that of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, which found him to be “in the mold of Barry Goldwater, a principled conservative, not a kleptocratic opportunist.”

In truth, however"

Here's a link to the full article. The commentary is worthwhile.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/02/8677/