Over at the Dean blog, the big man himself blogs:

Hi Bloggers. Here we are on the day of the Iowa caucuses, and I want to thank you for all the hard work you have done. If we get out all our targeted votes tonight we will win.

Whatever the outcome we have already begun to change American politics, but the goal of course is to get the real change which is to drive the right wing out of politics so ordinary Americans can have some control over our country again. We have seen this before, under President Mckinley, and under Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. Each time we have restored power to the American people first with the ascension of Theodore Roosevelt and then Franklin Roosevelt. Now we have to do it again.

See you in New Hampshire !

Howard Dean

Invoking Roosevelt? Do you possibly think Howie would do this:

As President, Roosevelt held the ideal that the Government should be the great arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the Nation, especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none.

Roosevelt emerged spectacularly as a "trust buster" by forcing the dissolution of a great railroad combination in the Northwest. Other antitrust suits under the Sherman Act followed.

Yeah right, He has to get in bed with the corporations if nominated. Will he think like this:

Many other Rooseveltian acts loom larger in historical retrospect than they did at the time, when they passed unnoticed or unappreciated. For example, T.R. was the first President to perceive, through his own pince-nez, that this nation's future trade posture must be toward Asia and away from the Old World entanglements of its past. Crossing the Sierra Nevada on May 7, 1903, he boggled at the beauty and otherworldliness of California. New York — his birthplace — seemed impossibly far away, Europe antipodean. "I felt as if I was seeing Provence in the making." There was no doubt at all in T.R.'s leaping mind which would be the world's next superpower. Less than five years before, he had stormed San Juan Heights in Cuba and felt what he described as the "wolf rising in the heart" — that primal lust for victory and power that drives all conquerors. "Our place ... is and must be with the nations that have left indelibly their impress on the centuries!" he shouted in San Francisco.

We can't be a suoerpower if we have to get UN approval for everything. Do you think DR. Dean would say this:

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Speech before the Knights of Columbus

That would be the last nail. Picture it, Dean in front of the NAACP saying Teddy's words. I think not.