Peggy Noonan on Howard Dean

Here is what I see as the nut of Peggy Noonan's OpinionJournal piece of today:

"Howard Dean is as much like George McGovern as 2004 is like 1972, which is to say not much. But Mr. Dean is not Mr. McGovern in a more important way. Mr. McGovern was guided and inspired by his own sense of a particular ideology. He reflected it, and his young supporters, who that year took over the party, shared it. They stood for something. Mr. Dean's people--and Mr. Dean--don't seem to have anything as coherent as an ideology. Instead they have attitude. "

Attitude, posture, image, presence, not ideas, ideology or even policy. Is this what we want in a president?