Was listening to the VPR interview with Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former Vt. guv and U.S. presidential contender and it got me thinking. What does this guy do when his term as DNC chair is over after the 2008 elections.
Dean will have been a high-profile politician for 17 years when he departs his DNC job. He'll also only be 60 years old, and it's hard to imagine he'll be ready to walk away from politics at that point, especially if a Democrat wins the White House. He's also one of the more opportunistic, right-place, right-time pols you'll ever come across.
Mitch Wertlieb of VPR must have been thinking along the same lines, because the very last question he put to Dean in the interview that aired just before the DNC's meeting with state party officials in Burlington on Saturaday was this: Is there any possibility that you may seek the presidency again some time in the future?
Dean's response was dodgy, to say the least: "Ah, heh, who knows, but hopefully I don't have to even have to think about it until 2016, b which is when the end of the term of the next president of the United States, eight year term, and we hope that person is a Democrat." For a full listen of the interview, click
HERE.
So here's the question of the day, campers. Does Dean:
A) Take a job in the next administration if the prez is a Democrat
B) Stick around Washington in some other capacity
C) Land a cushy job and prepare for a future run for the White House
D) Come home to Vermont and run for something here
E) Return to being a doctor
F) Other
-- Sam Hemingway
