From the comments on this Blog for America thread about today's decent Zogby poll comes a pretty good script for an ad from poster 'Zeitgeist':

In Time (on Time.com) is the following quote:

"Kerry fans were on the streets with signs saying dated dean, married kerry. 'They switched from grievance to governance,' explains Dick Gephardt's pollster Ed Reilly."

This is the core of the electability issue. We need to address this head-on, because it is WRONG. It buys into the lie that we are just about anger. We need to flat out say something like the following in a speech, a direct mail piece, or an ad:

"I saw where a commentator found people reluctant to support me because, he said, they wanted governance, not grievance. Well, I ask those people to give me another look.

I spent 11 years providing governance, and the people who saw the results re-elected me 5 times.

The job of governor, leading the executive branch, is more like President than being one of 535 members of Congress. As governor, the buck stopped at my desk on issues like the economy, where I balanced the budget every year I was in office; education, the environment, and health care, where under my leadership Vermont lead the nation in coverage of children and working class families.

If it is true that 'governance' is what voters are looking for, look no further than a governor."

And, funny thing: Dean's the only governor left.