Consider this: the control that the Clintons excercise over the Dim Party Machine is now threatened. If the nominee is Howard-the-Duck Dean, it would effectively break their hold on the process. Originally, they had hoped that their sock puppet would be Ketchup Kerry, but he is obviously imploding quite spectacularly. The Clintons, savvy pols to the end, realized this months ago, or at least saw the possibility. Thus, Sock Puppet #2, Wesley Crusher Clark.
In their eight years at the wheel of government, the Clintons built a massive self-serving political machine for themselves. It will endure for at least a generation, as it is centered not only in the political field but the entertainment one as well (does the name Streisand ring a bell?). You are right to act against them.
It's ironic, really...the Dims consider the Clintons their "best hope", but the reality is so different: They caused the GOP takeover of congress, and few if any candidates shilled for by them, outside of solidly Leftist areas, ever win. Their abilities as workers for fellow Dims are greatly exaggerated, mostly I'm sure, by themselves.
With the Clintons starting up America Coming Together, I expect that the only things left in the DNC headquarters by the time Dean takes over will be one office chair with a broken spring, a desk that needs one leg shimmed up and a rotary phone.