His name is Howard Dean, and he’s running for Democratic National Committee Chairman.

Now when conservative like for example, Sean Hannity, says, “Please elect Howard Dean…” he’s obviously being facetious. Hannity and many others believe that Dean is the kind of candidate that scares Middle America and thus will always lose elections. However, it’s guys like Hannity whom can’t see the forest for the trees. If the Democratic Party ever figures out that it is the party of progressive economic policies, that guy will be the last to figure out why the DNC is sweeping elections.

I’ve said many times before, for progressives, they lost the election in January of 2004. They lost when the pretender, John Kerry, beat the true progressive candidate. If you listened to people in Iowa and New Hampshire state why they voted for Kerry instead of Dean, they all pretty much said the same thing. “We like Dean but he can’t win in a national election.” They said the same thing about Nader. You know, if all of the people in this country actually voted for the candidate they liked instead of employing some weird marketing strategy, one party wouldn’t have a monopoly over all the houses of government right now. There was a bumper sticker I saw which summed this all up and was once funny and sad: “Dated Dean, Married Kerry”.

The rate of divorce is rather high in this country wouldn’t you say?

The DNC has a chance to redefine itself in the eyes of America. They’re not going to accomplish anything by putting forth mealy-mouthed centrists with no real agenda other than seeking power…like Kerry. There are fine economic progressive policies out there that are just screaming for someone to champion them. I think Dean in the guy. At least you know where he stands.

Finally, the marriage between Move.Org and the DNC has become most interesting of late. I read this morning that, “Liberal powerhouse MoveOn has a message for the “professional election losers” who run the Democratic Party: “We bought it, we own it, we’re going to take it back.” Whether you’re a staunch conservative or a bleeding heart liberal, I think we can all agree, for the sake of our democracy, there needs to be strong opposition party. If MoveOn is the catalyst for that change then God Bless.