Dean for DNC chair

This diary from Daily Kos is a summary of an article in the National Journal about the internal maneuvering in the DNC as they get ready to pick a new chair.

I certainly support Dean for the position, and to a lesser extent Simon Rosenberg. I think it would be a disaster for Vilsack to get the job. He's more of the same kind of leadership that got us into this mess. We really don't need, and can't survive, leadership that wants to capitulate to the Repugs at every turn. When was the last time you saw conservatives, in power or out, rushing to kowtow the way "moderate" Dems are these days? Never, that's when.

Dean would bring a great base of grassroots organizers who are trained in GOTV, fundraising, new media, etc. What an amazing resource, and you can bet Vilsack, if he becomes chair, will ignore it. Local level agitating isn't the complete solution of the Democrats' problems, but it's part. As is coordinating liberal/progressive analogs to the religious right. These are missions that Dean and his compatriots are well equiped to handle, but which aren't even on the radar screens of the traditional party leadership. And ignoring these goals will only further alienate the wing of the party that's already strongly leaning Green (if the Repug party can incorporate Bob Jones III, surely there is room among the Dems for David Cobb).

And while I'm on the subject of stupid Democrats, can I just say how much I hate Joe Lieberman. I blame him more than Nader for the Gore defeat in 2000; he's certainly the reason that Gore didn't get my vote. He's more conservative than many moderate Republicans, so what the heck is he still doing on our side of the aisle?