Booster for Dean

Ditto.

Dean is absolutely right to try to make inroads in solidly red territory. It's the only way to get the Democratic party out of the goddamn electoral quagmire they're in. Scraping together an ad hoc majority out of the 2006 elections without building any kind of base underneath it is just providing ammunition to Republicans in '08 and beyond.

Now if only they had any kind of compelling message besides, "We're not Republicans!...Usually..."