It goes without saying that because of this, I would prefer to see Howard Dean elected as the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. I believe he has what it takes to reform the party from the grassroots up. not from the old warhorses down.
This is not between liberal and moderate, as many would have you believe, it is between reformers who believe that the activists, new and old, at EVERY level, must be allowed input into rebuilding a winning Party.
Failing that, I would hope that Simon Rosenberg of the New Democratic Network would win, he is someone who is also working along the same lines, and would reach out to the grassroots and the netroots. Josh Marshall lists good reasons to support him here.
Marty Frost would make a solid United States Senator from Texas; he would be perfect to get back the seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison in 2006. However, he is too much of a Washington insider to lead this Party where it needs to go.
Not surprisingly, a lot of the old hangers-on who have led this party to defeat after defeat are petrified of Dean; they have no real understanding of who he is or what he's about.
Rumors that the Clintons are among those hoping for a Dean defeat may have been disspelled by the endorsement of Dean by long-time insider Harold Ickes.
Ickes stated that "I think all the candidates who are running have strong attributes, but Dean has more of the attributes than the others. Many people say Howard Dean is a northeastern liberal, he is progressive, but his tenure as governor of Vermont was that of a real moderate."
All righty, then!
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