Dean is making another run. Heard him speak in late September, and it certainly seemed like he was still interested. The scary thing is, he has a chance if Bush's second term goes to hell in a handbasket and Hillary doesn't run--and he's worse now than he was this cycle...his rhetoric has gotten worse than some of the Democratic trolls on this board (not opebo, or I'd really be running for the hills).
And now for a select line from Dean's talk (admittedly, to an overwhelmingly liberal audience):
"There are no moderate Republicans."
I would think he's just playing to his audience for that one -- Dean IS a moderate Democrat, who may have been anti-war, but promised to finish the job Bush started there. He also governed as a moderate, and made civil unions legal (without making same-sex marriage in itself legal). He's still my favorite politician, who, depending on the success of Bush's second term, could run on a moderate platform very easily and win, IMHO.