Reply #42: This is a very reasonable perspective.

[Kurovski]

For establishment Dems to continue arguing for methods that have yielded no positive result for the party is absurd and self-destructive.

It is ironic that many of those who have yielded year after year of failure would now believe that Dean himself is a destructive force in the party.

While reading your outstanding essay, a particular little gnome in my skull started hopping around and shouting "But, but, the election was stolen!"

Well, the fact is, aside from protecting against and hopefully prosecuting election fraud, there are indeed things that need to be done to get the message out. The second fact is: there is no way the election should have been close enough to steal. When America knows what today's Republican party stands for, we will have 65% of them voting Dem.

Dean is the best, most capable man to point the way to the Republican record. People need to hear and to remember a message. In a nation of brains re-wired by decades of THE TEEVEE to respond to hot messages and be bored by all the rest, Dean seems to have tapped into a way to seize the podium. Work with him, not against him. Use that podium, that platform he's created for you to reveal the Republican record, not to revile Dean.

It is easy to look into Dean's more brash statements and support his message. Edwards did it. And he even went a step farther by making sure that the Media spinners knew that he was not anti-Dean. All one need do is say "I would have put it another way, but Dean is correct about (fill in the blank)" Very easy, so please stop working against yourself and us.

The grassroots members of the party have spoken with money, words and action. I invite establishment Dems to support us by supporting Dean, lest you fade into irrelevance. There are more of us than there are of you.

If Dean can claw and kick box his way to the top of the hill to get the truth of that message out, why not? Look at the Republican party for the past few decades. Sure worked for them. Heck, they get millions of Americans to vote AGAINST THEMSELVES, against their very survival because of the way they have defined the Democratic Party.

I enjoyed your article very much Plaid. Thanks!