via rc3, I agree with Nick Denton's analysis on How to beat Bush:

The Democratic candidate for president should appropriate the traditional Republican values of limited government, individual liberty, and fiscal responsibility.

The Dean campaign should back Cruz Bustamante for California Governor.

1. Party solidarity. Supporting the Democratic slate (No Recall + Bustamante) will improve the chances for California to vote blue in 2004. Remember, this is the state that brought you Nixon and Reagan. Defend your strongholds.  
2. Dean has the one team that can deliver. Dean has the only functional democratic grass roots organization in the state. Local groups are already walking precincts to register voters for 2004. But the California race is in 7 weeks, not enough time for Davis or Bustamante to raise their own money or build their own supporters.
3. It will sharpen the Dean organization. This sprint can be a laboratory for every campaigning idea the Dean team can dream up. Think of it as an out of town tryout, a chance to work out bugs in the system.  

When use get power, you get more. I've been going to Dean meetups for a while and this would absolutely galvanize the diehards and rally the undecideds.

Poetry for a Monday morn arriving on a sea of public anxiety, despair, frustration and rejection.

Where the Mind is Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection:
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. 

— Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.