ACTION ALERT: Letters to Editor

There's a column on the op-ed page in today's Albuquerque Journal by Michael Goodwin of the New York Daily News entitled, "Dean 'The Scream' Is Democrats' Gravedigger." Here's a link to the column at , which is easier to access than the Journal's subscription-only version.

Excerpts:

• OK, as Mark Twain might say, reports of the Democratic Party's death are premature. But come Feb. 12, they won't be. That's the day Howard 'The Scream' Dean is likely to win the job of national Dem boss. It's also the day the party ceases to be a viable alternative to George Bush.

• In public, there is silence from those who know that Dean will take the party over the cliff and into an abyss of fringe liberalism that has no foundation in the American populace. Dean and the extremists he represents shouldn't even be allowed to call themselves Democrats. Deaniacs is what they are.

• He was too far left for primary voters, the cream of the liberal crop. But now the 447 internal electors think he should be the face, voice and chief operator of the whole party. That tells you something about the state chairs and other special-interest shills supporting Dean.

So, Deaniacs (!), do you think this is a perfect time to send a letter to the editor at the Albuquerque Journal? When you do, reference this column so that your letter has a better chance of being printed. Keep it short and to the point and provide your full contact information including name, address and phone number as they usually check with you before printing a letter.

Albuquerque Journal: Snail mail - 7777 Jefferson St NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109. You can also compose and send your letter to the Journal online at the Congress.org site or at the Journal website. Here are some ideas for talking points.

I always wonder when I read this kind of diatribe exactly where they think the Democratic Party is now. We've lost two presidential elections, the House and Senate, and numerous state and local elections since the Republican-lite forces inside Washington and the Party have held sway. Nevertheless, insider "consultants" and pundits like Al From and others from the DLC wing of the Party keep insisting we must keep banging our heads against the same wall, expecting different results -- the classic definition of insanity.

Remember all the naysayers who succeeded in getting Kerry the nomination by convincing primary voters that Dean was "unelectable" because he had no foreign policy experience? How ironic that Kerry turned out to be "unelectable" because he was so worried about offending the "center" that his position was virtually identical to Bush's on many issues, including the Iraq war. I have high hopes for future success now that the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party will have some clout, don't you?