Le Sabot Post-Moderne

Again, I'm not sure why you and others on the right keep trying to portray Dean as a guy who's some extreme lefty. This guy got a passing grade from the NRA, as I said here before, which puts Dean to the right of most of his Democrat compatriots.

Aside from the unfortunate scream, Dean had the ability to get people to cross party lines, was able to appeal to a wide variety of people, and, more importantly, he has a vision and willingness to take on the Republicans head on.

Dean has his faults and would have probably done worse in the general election than Kerry. On the other hand, he would have made the race much more interesting and might have been able to sneak out a minority victory (by carrying Ohio) simply because he could keep people awake and can give a good impression of strength, unlike Mr. Wishy-washy.

At any rate, the Democrats would benefit from his vision of a party which would be infused with grass-roots support and hitting the Republicans where it would most hurt by portraying the Democrats as the party of responsibility: fiscal and foreign.

The Democrats suffered because, despite their attempt to portray themselves as a party of the people, they evolved into anything but. Dean would reverse this course. If he learned anything from his campaign, it would be not to scream in public and never underestimate what a motivated grass-roots can do for you. In addition, Dean, through Trippi, learned what the net can do in terms of organizing and raising money and keeping your followers excited while easily adding new followers.

In short, he has the best vision for the future, the best potential for exciting the base and adding people to the base. All the others I've seen would end up allowing the Dems to continue their slide either by pushing the party too far to the right or by continuing the ways of the Clintons, under whose leadership the party lost power.

Disco,

How do you say "beer" in Ukrainian?

I'll bet you one that Terry McAuliffe remains Chairman of the DNC. The national apparatus belongs to Hillary. Kerry was half-time entertainment. Dean is a no-starter.

Thank you cs, well said. Dean got people to dream that defeating Bush was possible. He was inspiring. And if the rest of the nation hadn't decided that old ladies on Iowa farms somehow had their fingers on the pulse of the nation and blindly followed their surprising vote for Kerry in the primaries, it might have been a much livelier camapign and ordinary citizens would not have had to beg their nominee to stand up to the President. I liked Dean. And I still say if you can't get fired up at a rally of your college aged supporters, then when the heck can you? Perhaps it's just me, I but I like a politician with a pulse.