Howard Dean pops his head out of his burrow and sees six more months of irrelevance.

From ajc.com (via Drudge) comes news of a Dean sighting. I was getting worried the little fellow had forgotten his duty to entertain those of us with brains by barking, yelping, and foaming at the mouth.

Howard Dean gives Republicans credit for one thing: They have put the Democrats on the defensive and forced them to fight on their turf. That, he said, is about to change.

So, The Party of Blasphemy, Buggery, and 'Bortion is going to leave the country clubs, the corporate boardrooms, and the ivory towers of academe and come out to Flyover America and meet some real folks. Good luck with that.

"What the propagandists on the right have done is make people afraid to say they are Democrats," Dean told a gathering of Vermont Democrats.

People have always been afraid to be recognized as morons, Howie. We have merely exposed the paucity of thought that defines leftism.

"We have to be out there. We have to be vocal. We have to be pushing our version of the facts because their version of the facts is very unfactual."

Howie, you're making up words again.

After visiting 30 states in the first six months as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Dean said Monday he has found "There are Democrats everywhere."

Luckily, hope is everywhere as well.

The key to success is making those Democrats proud of their party, Dean said, by taking the offensive and fighting on Democratic turf.

Wait. Is Howie chickening out? He was tired of being forced to fight on his turf a few short paragraphs ago. Where do you want to rumble, little man?

"We need a message. It has to be clear," he said. "The framing of the debate determines who wins the debate.

Yadda, yadda, yadda.

"Running away from issues is how you lose elections," said Dean, a former Vermont governor.

Running in them is how you guys lose elections.

"We need to position ourselves as the party of change," he said. "I think we have learned that when big changes happen in the House and Senate, they happen because one party nationalizes the race and becomes the change agent."

Dean detailed his 50-state strategy to hire and finance from national coffers organizers in every state, saying that the party is on track to have organizers in every state by the end of the year.

They don't have people in every state???????

"Vote by vote, precinct by precinct, door by door, year by year and election by election, we will take this country back for the people who built it," he said.

In his speech Dean talked about the growing diversity in America and how well that diversity meshes with the message and membership of the Democratic Party.

"The face of the Democratic Party is such that it looks like all of America will look in 2050," said Dean.

Yeah, brain dead and morally obtuse.