But in the absence of common sense, names like Donald Fehr and George Steinbrenner have emerged as dream candidates.

Not that Gore is some dream candidate, but Bush - he's an ideal puppet, as though there's a hidden ghost-machine running this thing.

Is this (by all accounts) brilliant former general really a dream candidate for the parched and leaderless Democrats, or just a dream?

In 1972, President Nixon ran for reelection against the media's dream candidate, George McGovern.

Berkley was Democrats' dream candidate, as she easily won the primary with 81.5% of the vote.

Even among many on the left, Mr. Nader is not considered the dream candidate.

Who was their dream candidate for president?

But asked if that did not make Mr. Cheney a dream candidate to run against, Mr. Devine demurred.

Ross Perot was the versifier's dream candidate for President - an iambic pentameter with an o rhyme.