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HOWARD DEAN CONTINUES TO ALIENATE HIS party's moderates, including Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, who did not take advantage of a recent opportunity to meet with Dean and have her picture taken.

The governor has avoided getting mixed in with the more left-wing, Michael Moore/MoveOn factions of the Democratic Party. Napolitano did not endorse Dean or another Democratic presidential hopeful last year until after Sen. John Kerry won the Arizona primary and had essentially secured the nomination.

Indeed, the criteria for fitting into Howard Dean's Democratic Party continues to narrow. The crack fundraiser did however, note that hispanics fit into his version of diversity.

Dean also hailed Tuesday's election of Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor of Los Angeles. Villaraigosa defeated fellow Democrat James Hahn to become L.A.'s first Hispanic mayor in more than century. Dean said the GOP cannot boast of that kind of diversity in its roster of mayors or U.S. senators.

The DNC chair failed to point out the U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., and top Bush administration officials --Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez -- are Hispanic and that the GOP improved its standing with Latinos in the November vote.

Of course, conservative minorities aren't minorities at all. They are uncle Toms, or Aunt Jemimas, or house slaves. See? The Republican Party is made up of white males and their slaves.

More good news for right-wing slave masters, the Dean machine is going to appear on Meet the Press this weekend.

...anticipation of Dean on ''Meet the Press'' Sunday is unsettling for the party's faithful. This will be his first exposure as chairman on a major network interview, and Russert predictably will be well-prepared with a rap sheet of the chairman's verbal assaults. The prospect that Dean will make juicy additions to that collection unnerves Democrats.

I would just like to take a moment to thank Dailykos, who first floated the idea of a Dean chairmanship. It has led to the gathering of roughly $13 million in campaign funds for the Democratic Party, while the RNC has only been able to raise a paltry $32 million.