Howard Dean on what the party needs to do

[jswordy]

Forgive me if this has been posted already. I am real busy and unable to go through the site as well as I should to see if it has.

This is thought-provoking stuff from the good Doctor about what the party needs to do.

http://www.alternet.org/story/20878/

It's obvious he has given considerable thought to moving the Democrats forward.

[madfloridian]

1. There he goes again....using the word "reform".

Q:Can you give me an example of how that happened?

SNIP..."Well, the MeetUps themselves . We didn't plan them, they planned us. My key staff person Kate O'Connor noticed this thing on the Web as a way to get people together. But it was done by people in the field. There were meetings in 850 different locations once a month ... focused on how to get me elected. Some of them are still doing it today. On the day after the election there were a number of MeetUps. The Kerry people went. They needed a place to go and talk ... they had just got clobbered in the election. In a sense, the MeetUp model could do some of the things that the right-wing church provides – a place where people can go that has community, and common views and values. And by the way, the MeetUps aren't progressive, they are reformist."

[ecoalex]

2. Dean Is Right

Time to Decentralise the DNc, lose the DLC. The PDA has a good start for what Dean envisions, decentralisation. The DNC DLC power people will fight it, as well as the politicians, but if you read Dean, WE HAVE THE POWER , it's not theirs, it's OURS.

It will take time to reorganise from the bottom up, but it's about the grassroots taking control, where it's supposed to come from, not the elite top.Kerry came off as elite, mary beth cahill was washington inside , why it took so long to counter the swift boat liars the elite doesn't like to get dirty in a street fight ,why Kerry came off as a wuss. Molly Ivans should of been in the loop, she would of clued them in to rove's tactics and shrub's less than normal I. Q . Ivans would of told them to counter punch asap.

Dean is right, the Dems need to start anew far from Washington, from the bottom up, using meet ups, and finding new candidates, ones that will represent US, not the Washington corporate elite.

[jswordy]

3. Let's run Dean with Ivins as manager

DREAM TEAM! Dean is the nom, Ivins his campaign manager, we all get to go to an inauguration in January, 2009!

LOL. HEY, I CAN DREAM, CAN'T I?

Especially since, the way it's going, I won't be a Democrat much longer. LOL.