The hijacking of the Democratic Party by fringe elements like Moveon.org (begun as a push to get people to move on from the Clinton sex scandals, moveon.org no longer follows their own advice and has been unable to move on from the "Bush lied, people died" meme, which is a lie itself) has already begun to bear fruit- for the Republican Party. Howard Dean, the screaming governor from Vermont, was made chairman of the DNC as a sop to the far left elements of the party. Big mistake. Contributions to the DNC's political fund are far below what they expected, and even further below what the Republicans have collected during the same period. Not only that, but Dean's inability to restrain his fiery rhetoric has turned off a lot potential donors and voters. Last week, for instance, he said that Tom DeLay should head back to Texas and serve a jail term for his crimes. He seems to have forgotten that first a person has to be accused of crime, then tried for that crime, and then found guilty, before serving a jail sentence. It's yet another example of how the far left cares little for law if it gets in the way of their agenda. You want the Supreme Court stuffed with activist judges? Let Dean and Moveon.org do the nominating, and then watch their toadies in the Senate hypocritically run their own "nuclear option" to get over the GOP's sure-to-be-used filibusters.

Of course all that is hypothetical prognostication, but the idea that Dean is bad for the Democratic Party is all truth. I'm sure Karl Rove thansk god every morning that Dean is still chairman of the DNC.