Go, Howard, Go!

This is just a button, not an endorsement 

"People want us to fight," Dean told the national party's executive committee. "We are here to fight."

Addressing Iowa party activists later Saturday in Des Moines, he added:

"We need to be blunt and clear about the things we're going to fight for. I'm tired of lying down in front of the Republican machine. We need to stand up for what we believe in."

And who would you turn to for an evaluation of Dean as Democratic Party Chair? Dick Cheney, of course.

"Howard Dean is 'over the top,'" Vice President Dick Cheney says, calling the Democrats' chairman "not the kind of individual you want to have representing your political party."

Well Dick, he fortunately isn't "representing your political party."

"I've never been able to understand his appeal. Maybe his mother loved him, but I've never met anybody who does. He's never won anything, as best I can tell,"

Cheney said in an interview to be aired Monday on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes.

If I were a resident of Vermont, I would be mightily insulted by Cheney's ignorance. As AOL points out, Dean was elected Vermont Governor 5 times.