That was kinda fun…

…let's do another one. Stuff like this drives me nuts…

I’m encouraged by the vision of Howard Dean and his commitment to see the 50 State Strategy through, even as the Party elites fight him every step of the way.

Howard Dean, distressing though the thought may be to unreconstructed Deaners, is the "Party elite," or at least one of its most visible, and in some respects powerful, figures. He was elected by the unanimous vote of the most elite assembly of officials in the Party, the Democratic National Committee. Before Joe Trippi molded and sold the image of the onetime DLC poster boy as an insurgent candidate for the Presidential nomination he was so controversial in Party circles that his colleagues elected him to the Chair of the Democratic Governors Association.

It was really no great reach for the Party 'elites' (such as they are, and really, they aren't all that) to elect Howard Dean as their leader, in no small part because he made the 50 State Strategy a central focus of his campaign for Chair. They already knew him because he was already one of them.

The Chairman knew when to fold the 'outsider' card and get about the business of Party building instead of bashing. If all of his fans would just follow suit, imagine what we might accomplish.