According to Business Week, Howard Dean’s foam-at-the-mouth schtick is a dud with Dem donors (hat tip: Daly Thoughts and The Hedgehog Report):

One hundred days into his tenure as the high-energy, higher-decibel chairman of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean is in trouble with party moneybags. The former Vermont governor seems to be doing a better job flaying the Republicans than bridging the cash chasm between the parties. Given Dean’s 2004 run as a populist crusader, moderates were never wild about his takeover of the Democratic National Committee. So some big donors are sitting on their wallets.

Dean wowed the faithful in ’04 with his Web-based fund-raising magic. But major business donors still count, and in his new role as party honcho, the feisty doctor seems to be struggling to connect. After achieving money parity with the GOP in 2004, Democrats have fallen far behind. According to the Federal Election Commission, the DNC raised $14.1 million in the first quarter of 2005, vs. the Republican National Committee’s $32.3 million. Dean drew about 20,000 new donors, while his rivals picked up 68,200. The bottom line: Republicans have $26.2 million in the bank vs. $7.2 million for the Dems.

How long before we hear the tin-foilers murmuring that Dean is a GOP plant? It’s all Karl Rove’s fault!!!!!

Update: Ankle Biting Pundits have choice excerpts from Dean’s rant this morning at a moonbat confab in D.C.

Update II: Trey Jackson has video.