No, Dean's position is absurd. Clinton didn't throw down the gauntlet when all the hubub started over moving up the primaries, and nor did Obama.

It is Dean's position that created the circumstances the party finds itself in.

The result is, he will either be forced to give in to FL and MI state parties (and thereby yield some of the DNC's national power and authority back to the states), or he will have to disenfranchise the voters who got off their asses and went out and voted despite the clusterfuck the party rules created for them this.

Those are the two choices, and I think it is a given that neither of the two remaining candidates will be pleased with the outcome, because there isn't a happy ending scenario.

Clinton will benefit if they are seated. Enough to win? We don't know at this point, it is too close to call.

But even if Clinton loses the nomination, if those FL and MI delegations aren't seated at the convention and their votes counted in the national party totals, the Democratic nominee, in this case Obama, will have to answer the charges of disenfranchising millions of voters in the general election.

Of course, Obamamaniacs with rose colored glasses haven't been able to figure that out yet, because they are too fearful that the delegations will be seated in a way that benefits Clinton more than Obama.

But then, we have a few folks here whose idolatry of their candidate clouds their intellect, their critical thinking abilities, and gives them an extremely narrow view of the realities of this election year.

C'est la guerre.