IMPORTANT.... From Howard Dean

[DFW]

146. Judy would hang Howard by his toes from a Vermont maple tree if he ran for national office again

Don't count on Howard for that. I don't know Gore well enough to have any insight as to whether he'd want to do it again, but he talks to Howard, and I suspect Howard will discourage him even if he shows the slightest interest.

Howard still firmly believes that younger blood should be stepping up to do this. As DNC chair, he remained neutral, of course, but he wasn't at all disappointed to work with the young Obama after he had secured the nomination in 2008.

After the 2008 victory, it was downright scandalous that Howard was excluded from Obama's administration, but as a fellow Chicagoan, Rahm had Obama's ear, and Howard didn't. Howard just took it as luck-of-the-draw politics, and moved on, but I'm betting (and Obama will surely never speak about this publicly) that Obama regrets not having Howard as HHS secretary, or, at the VERY least, Surgeon General. I mean, c'mon. Kathleen Sibelius or Howard Dean? That's not a choice, that's an insult.

For the DNC Chairman who turned our fortunes around 180° within 2 years, and got us the White House in 4, to push him out to pasture with not so much as a very noisy gesture of recognition was disgusting, I thought. But that's why Howard is in politics, and I'm not.

By the way, if Gingrich is the closest the Republicans can come to having a star, then they will need every hundred million the Kochs can spare, every hour of extremist propaganda Murdoch will give them, and every stolen or fictitious vote they can get away with, if they are to come even close to holding their own in the next election.