Dr. Dean: Courage

"Behold, the power of cheese."

Speaking at the national convention of the College Democrats, Howard Dean expressed the necessity for courting Midwestern voters.

In his address, he sounded a bit like Dan Rather.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Winning votes in the Midwest will be crucial to Democratic hopes to regain power in Washington in November, party Chairman Howard Dean told about 400 young people at the College Democrats National Convention on Thursday.

"We cannot be a national party unless we have the courage to ask every single American for their vote," Dean said.

What does that mean?

Courage.

It takes "courage" to campaign in the Midwest?

That sounds like a clear admission from Dean that Democrats are not only completely out of touch with the people in fly-over country, but that Dems find the thought of appealing to them for votes to be a frightening mission.

Since Dean took the reins of the Democratic Party, he has been talking about this "50-state plan." It seems like forever.

The thing is I don't see Dems offering anything that would cause the Red State vote to turn blue.

Well, there was that time back in May when Dean tried to pass off that his party considered marriage to be between a man and a woman.
He said:

"The Democratic Party platform from 2004 says that marriage is between a man and a woman. That's what it says."

Of course, Dean had to apologize for not being familiar with his own party's platform when the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force complained about Dean's remarks.

Dean was forced to admit, "I misstated the Democratic Party's platform, which does not say marriage should be limited to a man and a woman."

Yes, Dean knows that he must find a way to win over all of those people in the middle of the country who don't believe in the extreme liberal agenda that the Dems have adopted in the past couple of decades.

He knows he needs their votes, but other than by "misstating" the Dems' positions, he hasn't figured out a way to convert them.

I'm afraid courage isn't the answer.

Far Left extremism is the face of today's Democratic Party. Dean will need to either abandon that philosophy (not going to happen) or do his best to mask it.