Having faced criticism from elected officials in his own party for his inflamatory rhetoric against Republicans, Howard Dean has now gotten some positive feedback from the grassroots.

After a meeting of the DNC's 40-member executive committee at a downtown hotel, members said Dean was doing exactly what they elected him to do -- build the party in all states and aggressively challenge Republicans.

``I hope Governor Dean will remember that he didn't get elected to be a wimp,'' said DNC member Gilda Cobb-Hunter, a South Carolina state representative. ``We have been waiting a long time for someone to stand up for Democrats.''

Hey, I'm all for How-weird standing up for the Democrats. I absolutely love it when he does. And I am, in fact, rather heartened by this announcement from another member of the DNC executive committee.

``Howard Dean is going to be much more aggressive, much more outspoken and much more of a risk-taker outside the Beltway than any chairman has been. We knew that,'' said Alvaro Cifuentes, chairman of the DNC Hispanic caucus.

``We have to get our politics out of Washington. We cannot continue to be held captive by party leaders who I respect but who have to play their own local politics,'' Cifuentes said, calling congressional Democrats ``timid'' and the flap over his comments ``mostly a Beltway play.''

Yes, Mr. Cifuentes! Break free of those party leaders and elected officials who have been successful for years. They need to either adopt Dean's raging radical rant visionary hardline rhetoric or be voted out in the Democrat primaries. You people need to insist that they continue to use the rhetioric of socialists, communists, anarchists and race-baiting extremists mainstream Democrats to appeal to undecided voters and independents.

Such a strategy will allow the Democrat Party to soar to the same heights as the Dean campaign in the 2004 primaries.

And in the mean time, we in the GOP continue to appeal to the mainstream values of average Americans,.

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