Dean has been active and has been giving everyone a glimpse of what he would bring to the DNC and the Democratic Party. He recently
addressed the Stanford population. He seems to "get it" as far as our problems and the solutions necessary for progress.
Problem:
"We don't need two Republican Parties in this country," Dean said. "Truman once said, `If you run a Republican against a Democrat who acts like a Republican, the real Republican wins every time.'"
Solutions:
Dean urged the Democratic Party leadership to present "an opposition model, a real difference" to the Republican platform. "If you ever want to win again, then stand for something, stand for what you believe in," he said.
Democrats are "bad at messaging" their moral values, which Dean said are rooted in "a sense of obligation to each other." He advocated speaking about charged issues on Democratic terms.
"Instead of fighting about gay marriage, what we ought to be fighting about is that every single American has the same rights as every other American," he said. "We don't have to debate on their terms, let's debate them on our terms.
The article contains more on what Dean had to say. Sadly, few Democratic powerbrokers, politicians or otherwise, reflect this view.