Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

In the aftermath of three successive failures -- the 2000 presidential election, the 2002 midterm election, and the 2004 presidential election -- now is the time for the Democratic Party to abandon its strategy of concession and capitulation.

Refining a failed strategy is not the answer. Our party must reinvent itself in ways appropriate to the inevitably-dire circumstances of President Bush's second term.

During the 2004 presidential primary campaign, Howard Dean brought an authentic sense of urgency to the Democratic Party, and through a distributed and networked organization laid the foundation for turning a newly-energized grassroots into ground troops ready to fight the good fight.

That approach to organization, and that level of energy, is what the Democratic Party needs as it prepares to engage in fierce opposition to the Bush Administration's falsely-claimed mandate.

Therefore, we Democrats -- both long-time and newly-arrived -- urge the Democratic Party to select Howard Dean as the new Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and further urge Dr. Dean to bring to bear the sense of urgency exhibited during his presidential campaign upon the very machine of the Democratic Party, from the inside.