Howard Dean should run for the senate in 2012,

[smoogatz]

in Massachusetts, against Scott Brown. It would be delicious to watch, and Dean would make a great senator.

[frazzled]

1. Interesting Freudian slip there on the spelling: Hoard

Don't worry, it's clear he's looking to reenter politics. It rarely works. But who knows.

[smoogatz]

2. Not sure what's Freudian about it.

New iMac with the small wireless keyboard--a bit of an adjustment after my old, full-keyboard iMac.

[SlingBlade]

3. Dean SHOULD Run or at least be invited

to straighten out this ship which has proven to be a disaster thus far

It's been one long game of concessions and compromise to our so called friends
and an outright sell out to the SOB Re-Pukes.

Didn't we learn anything from eight years of BushCo and RePuke politics ???

Dean knows how to fight these bastards toe to toe, But LIEberman seems to be the
public face of this weak kneed slack jawed democratic leadership

[smoogatz]

5. 10 or 11 Dem senators are only nominal Dems, IMO.

Harry Reid near the top of the list. You want weak-kneed and slack-jawed, look no farther than Reid.

[cali]

4. he's a die hard Vermonter. Just can't see it.

[Peregrine Took]

6. Isn't it time for Leahy to retire? Howard needs to run from Vermont.

[cali]

7. Leahy is running this year.

and Vermonters love him in the same way that MA loved Teddy. I hope this is his last run even though I think he's been a terrific Senator.

[spin]

8. Makes sense to me...

Dean is one very good Democrat and would run a quality campaign.

edited for spelling

[TicketyBoo]

9. Except…

as Cali says, he's not from Massachusetts. He's from Vermont.

[spin]

10. True, there is that slight problem ...

Maybe we could convince him to move.

Surely there must be a way to get him in the Senate. He would be a strong voice.

I personally feel he would have made a great President.

Had it not been for the media blowing the "Dean Scream" out of proportion, I believe he would have secured the nomination and won his seat in the Oval Office as he would have won a stronger campaign than John Kerry.

In fact, CNN issued a public apology and admitted in a statement that they indeed may have "overplayed" the incident. The incessant replaying of the "Dean Scream" by the press became a debate on the topic of whether Dean was the victim of media bias. The scream scene was shown an estimated 633 times by cable and broadcast news networks in just four days following the incident, a number that does not include talk shows and local news broadcasts.<36> However, those who were in the actual audience that day insist that they were not aware of the infamous "scream" until they returned to their hotel rooms and saw it on TV.<31> Dean said after the general election in 2004 that his microphone only picked up his voice and did not also capture the loud cheering he received from the audience as a result of the speech. On January 27 Dean again suffered a defeat, finishing second to Kerry in the New Hampshire primary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Iowa_results_and_the_.22Dean_Scream.22

[TicketyBoo]

11. Kind of

crying over spilt milk, though.

Better to look forward than back.