Hey at least you're consistent.
If Howard Dean were a race horse, he might well be elected most likely to end up as dog food. As for his chances for DNC chair, they're fast approaching sweaty ice cube in hell status. The DC-crats have now backed their horse, Roemer; apparently as the latest Deanicide. And as we know those folks are rather adept at popping Howard's balloon and raining hard on the netroot's parade.
And this is a shame.
It's a shame because a lot of apparently bright people continue to laud as their savior a man that governed as a centrist New Dem, campaigned for president as a populist left winger, gladly milked them for tens of millions of dollars, and then proceeded to get his butt soundly kicked everywhere but his home state?!? Such a deal! Yes, Dean was electorally scourged and crucified by his own party ("forgive them lord, for they know not what they do") but he will most likely fail to rise again, on the 3rd or any other day.
It's a shame because there are compromise candidates for DNC chair that might well satisfy both the beltway bandits and the roots and, by that, serve to reunify the party. Donnie Fowler has the grassroots organizational creds, the heart and the right message for the job at this crossroads in party history. Rosenberg has the media and tech savvy, brains and a spot on message as well. Both are proven centrist strategists. Dean is none of these things. He is a doctor. He is not a strategist. He only played one on TV; until he starred in Scream I, that is.
It's more than a little ironic that, though many self-described liberals are secular humanists and more than a few atheists, they all seem to share this penchant for faith-based politics. In the face of all evidence to the contrary, they practice the insanity of repeating mistakes, all the while ever hopeful of a miracle. Hallelujah!
This is why most Americans don't identify themselves as liberal or conservative. They can't afford long odds bets placed on pipe dreams when the consequences come back to hit them squarely where they and theirs live. They intuitively know functional democracy is more often than not about pragmatic consensus based on reasoned compromise. A broad a consensus as possible must be sought to ensure that no representative faction harbors festering yet legitimate resentment. Because inevitably the disenfranchised will again have their day. When that day comes history shows us that vengeance may well be theirs.
So there it is Deaniacs: Continue to ignore reality and bet the farm on a polarizing long shot with a losing record, thereby upping the odds of a Roemer chairmanship and a deeper split in the party (DC-crats 1; netroots zip). Or cast your lot with a candidate that can help unify, not further the divide us. Yes, you can endorse the darling of your wild passions, the consequences be damned. You can have it all your way, for now.
Anyone can choose to take their ball and go home. Some wisely do right by both their party and their country simply by team playing to win.
Go Team!
PEACE