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In a scream that was heard around the nation in 2004 the voice behind the scream has re-emerged on top of the heap of the Democratic Party and he and his famous voice will be directing the party into the mid-term and Presidential Race of 2008.

Was his election or elevation from political purgatory a well engineered feat that was neatly packaged as a political gift for the GOP? Will Dean's ability to talk his way into political drama and escalating miscues be the right stuff for the Democratic Party at the expense of Republican operatives around the nation? Personally I don't think Democratic Big Blue Scream Machine is going to topple any political mountains anytime soon.

I'm sure you've heard what His Highness Sir Screamer has remarked in his "hatred" for us conservative Republicans. Now is that any way for a serious leader of any political party to function? I mean take a look at the former chairman, Terry McAuliffe. He was certainly as partisan as any head of the Democratic Party has been and then some. Yet, amidst his painfully dulling comments about What the President didn't do, what our leadership in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate were doing, and then what us conservatives were saying in our effort to reclaim America for its true Judeo-Christian values...he never stated he hated us.

But Dean does.. and he does have a certain adversity to conservatives which he hopes he can turn into a sure fire party builder to end the ten-year slide of the national Democratic Party. He sincerely believes that all of this negative energy can somehow be channeled to re-capture red states, strengthen blue states and broaden the base of the party, while moving steadily to the left of center.

It sounds like an impossibility. When you consider the centrist leaders like Senator Feinstein, Senator Lieberman, former Senator Zell Miller... Dr. Dean believes his Party should breathe the rarified air that Senator Ted Kennedy breathes, and as inviting as that all may seem to some liberals who believe the best way to build a successful pathway to the future is to move toward the far left antics of the past; it is the wrong move for Democrats.

Sure...The Deaniacs have to be full of themselves right about now. I mean who wouldn't. They saw their former leader's presidential hopes riddled to pieces by Vietnam gunboat hero Senator John Kerry. He saw his campaign literally evaporate after the Iowa Caucuses and he somehow managed to still keep himself relevant and viable during the presidential sweepstakes instead of slowly disappearing beneath the waves like so many others had before.

Perhaps, Dean really had something else in mind. After all, this is the man who galvanized his legendary Internet troops, and amassed an impressive monetary war chest that certainly rivaled if not surpassed all of the other Democrat contenders combined. Was Dean running for President in the beginning to truly run in truth for the opportunity to remake the Democratic Party in his own image? Was the run for President the ruse only to go for the true gold in Dean's mind?

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