Head of the DNC is probably a great job for him, but it signals the end of his running for public office.
And watch at the DNC Chair calls half of the party Democrats in name only and the Republican wing of the Democratic Party... I'd be in a very difficult fix if he became chair as would many moderate and conservative democrats... Dona Brazil all the way! That said James Carville would be fun 
At least he would stand for something. We would have a barometer for judging whetehr democrats are left or right of the core DNC.
Carville would be a hoot, especially since I expcet he would still want to work on CNN.
Hey! I'm quite fond of the Ragin' Cagen!
Dean isn't liberal though, he suddenly became liberal in early 2003, and before that he wouldn't have been out of place with Libertarian leaning Dems like Tony Knowles and Brian Schweitzer it was breath taking to see how radical he drove towards the far left of the party, had he remained a passionate moderate he would have been a competive candidate but he wasn’t and added to this he then had the temerity to turn round to moderate and conservative dems and even broad groups like the DLC and lecture us on what “real democrats” where all about an how we where not really democrats but hailed from the “Republican wing of the Democratic Party”… I’m sorry but the man has some cheek.
Dean is liberal in belief, moderate in action. He believes it is better to take baby steps toward his core beliefs than to try and go for it all at once and end up getting nothing done.
You are right that his running far left and insulting tone hurts his position in the party.
Carville, unlike most of the potential DNC heads, at least remains in touch with reality and understands the message of the recent election cycles. I just think it would be funny for CNN to keep saying they have no editorial bias or slant and have the DNC chief on their payroll.
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