We Love You, Dr. Howard Dean...And We Will Stand With You For Whatever You Decide!

Letter from Dr. Howard Dean to his support crew:

I am very proud of all of you and very grateful to all of you for your
extraordinary hard work.

I announced today that I am no longer actively pursuing the presidency.

I am so thankful for all of you who traveled around the country, showed
up at our office, worked around the clock, because you believed in what
we were doing - to you, thousands of Americans who have given
generously of your time, in your states, because you believed in our cause.

I want to thank the 300,000 small donors that decided that they wanted
their country back.

I want to thank all the people in every state who heard our message and
supported us.

We have led this party back to considering what its heart and soul is. Although there is a lot of work left to do, I am very proud of all of you and very grateful to all of you for your extraordinary hard work.

As the fight moves forward, I have some things that I specifically want to ask of you.

First, keep active in the primary. We are still on the ballots. Sending delegates to the convention only continues to energize our party. Fight on in the caucuses. Use your network to send progressive delegates to the convention in Boston. We are not going away. We are staying together, unified -- all of us.

Secondly, we will convert Dean for America into a new grassroots organization, and I hope you stay involved. We are determined to keep this entire organization vibrant. There are a lot of ways to make change. We are leaving one track, but we are going on another track that will take back America for ordinary people again.

Third, there have been a lot of people who have decided to run for office locally as a result of this campaign. I encourage you to run for office and support candidates like you who run for office. We will use this enormous organization to support you as you run -- we will change the face of democracy so that it represents ordinary Americans once again.

We must beat George W. Bush in November. I will support the nominee of our party and do everything I can to beat George W. Bush and I urge you to do the same. But we will not be above letting our nominee know that we expect them to adhere to the standards that this organization has set for decency, honesty, integrity and standing up for ordinary American working people.

One of the things that I realized a long time ago is that change is very difficult. There is enormous institutional resistance to change in this country. You cannot expect people with great privileges taken at the expense of ordinary working people to surrender them lightly.

Change is hard work. Change does not happen simply because you go to a rally and simply because you make phone calls -- and I know how hard everybody has worked. But change is a process that you can never give up on.

Change is the state of America and change is the state of humankind. The history of humanity is that determined people overcome obstacles. It is natural for people to resist, but it is also inevitable that we will win.

So we will continue to fight. This is the end of phase one of this fight, but the fight will go on, and we will be in it together. We will continue to bring our message of hope and change to the American people.

Thank you very much for everything that you have done.

Governor Howard Dean, M.D.

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(Now we can look back at this miracle, the entire Dean Machine, and wonder if we have been subverted more by the "New Democrats," the Democratic Leadership Conference...nothing more than Bush_lite, or the RNC.

If Kerry, Edwards and the rest turn out to be choking instead of fighting---if they turn out to have co-opted Dr. Dean's message but now decide that he is out of the race and they can return to their cowardly ways, we will be back.

I would rather support St. Ralph than a cowardly son of a bitch like Edwards or Kerry who may have gotten their ill gotten gains by joining forces with lousy paid off bastards like DLC Ayatollah Carville or Ayatollah Begala.

I hope all "Deaniacs" watch this very carefully. If these gutless mother fuckers start caving again, because they don't have the leadership of Dr. Howard Dean to fashion their campaigns after, then they should all be sent back to the fucking woodshed.

And St. Ralph should steal another election from these bastards and sink America in all-tax-cuts-and-all-war-and-all-anti-choice all the time politics.

Because the Right Wing knows how to fight. Dr. Howard Dean knew how to fight.

But John Kerry? John Edwards? They only knew how to fight Dr. Dean. And if they loose this final fight because of their fucking audacity, they should slice their wrists in public. They should hang along with war criminals Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Franks, Wolfowitz and Perle. They should all drop through the gate on the hangman's galley together.

Frankly, there is something terribly wrong with a vote count in New Hampshire that showed Dr. Dean ahead of Kerry by 1.5% on the paper ballot, but then showed him loosing when the machines were counted.

If there is some crooked dealings here that put all the Howard Dean supporters in the gutter and gave this primary to boring, message crooks like Kerry, then there must be armed uprising and insurrection. It is too disgusting to come so far in such a short time and then have our success stolen from us by the same egregious and mendacious method that gave our White House to chimp_junta.

I pray it isn't so. I pray...)