Finally, Howard Dean Gets It, Atmo

A decade ago, Howard Dean was a reliably center-right establishment Democrat, who ran a campaign that frightened the rest of the Democratic establishment; remember that Fox "News" asswhipe Joe Trippi was his campaign manager.  But an interesting thing happened after Dean was snubbed by his peers.  He got himself into the party machine and realized that he had a taste for winning and winning in ways others had not dared attempt.  Dean was being educated.  Slowly, painfully, he began to creep leftward toward the political center.  Now the Obama presidency has only hastened Dean's inexorable ascent into reason.  If a rock-ribbed conservative Dem like Dean can grow into awareness, then maybe, just maybe there is the faintest glimmer of hope for our wretched political culture.  Seeing Obama for what he is, and seeing Obama and the Democratic establishment policies and positions for what they are, Dean might find the brains and the balls to make a very high-profile exit.  He's shown he's a dangerously good politician when he gets into it--he was dangerous enough for the Democratic machine and the establishment media to murder his presidential campaign in 2004--so let's see what Dean can do now.