[areafiftyone]

Several of the campaigns said that Dean is all but a shoo-in to be on the final ballot

I don't think so. Kerry and his Son Chris Heinz are not endorsing Dean!

[Semper Vigilantis]

This is rich. Kerry is so stupid & so full of himself that he doesn't even realize that HE lost the election. As usual it's someone else's fault - HE did nothing wrong, there's nothing wrong with HIM, HE should have won.

[andie74]

Now, whatever happened to the principles behind the Democratic Unity Dinner??? Remember that from last year?

And whatever will happen to Terry McAuliffe? I must admit, I will miss that guy's stupidity on the Sunday shows.

[schaketo]

Al Sharpton's got my vote.

[Russ]

Sorta reminds me of the White Star Line interviewing Captains for the Titanic...

[IamConservative]

Clinton/Byah???

[Dolphy]

I caught a bit of their lineup on C-Span over the weekend. They were each asked to answer a question regarding their vision of their party (or some such thing). The responses were really uninspiring. It remains a fact that the only thing that seems to set any of them on fire is their hatred of Bush.

[Peach]

Hillary will cut Kerry to pieces when the time comes.

[dead]

I'm not sure who I want to see more in '08 - Kerry or Gore!

I can't imagine the Dems would be idiotic enough to trot out either of those two ugly bridesmaids again, but I can hope.

[Wheee The People]

If Hillary finds out that Kerry is making a run in '08...watch you backside John!

[Bommer]

Kerry is toast! He lost and only Republicans run loosers. The only threat out of that field is Evan Bayh. Hes waaay to moderate win the DNC nod.

[finnman69]

The Kerry Clinton battle will be amazing to watch.

[dawn53]

Meanwhile, Dean, who formally announced yesterday, is emerging as the clear front-runner in the race, according to strategists for the other campaigns.

Last I read they were asking McAuliffe to stay on because a lot of Dems were afraid of Dean as DNC chairman.

[Cicero]

I think I'd be a lot more careful about refusing an offer from hillary than one from kerry.

Interesting to see if Richardson will be willing to go head-to-head with his former associate.

Kerry loves himself so much he simply can't conceive that everyone else doesn't love him too.

[mountaineer]

Poor Effin doesn't realize that being the loser he is, he's utterly irrelevant.

[Reform4Bush]

The party is too mad at him for bumbling this election away, no way they let him get a second chance.

Even if they do, the Swift Vets are still going to be there, telling the TRUTH about John F'n Kerry.

[Southack]

"Over the past six weeks, Sen. Evan Bayh (Ind.), Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y,), New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and Kerry have been in touch with..."

There's your list for 2008 on the Dem side. Not Dean. Not Gore. Notice that three of the Dem names are from our Red states: Bayh, Richardson, and Warner. The other two have an entrenched base of hyper-radical left-wing supporters: Hillary and Kerry.

Once again for 2008, all of the Dems' serious candidates will be White, and all but one of them are male.

Richardson on the above list is merely a placeholder...at best jockeying for a VP nod due to his past pro-Clinton record among Dems and his anti-gay behavior as Governor of New Mexico.

That leaves them with just 4 candidates for the top nomination in '08. Their names are above. There will not be another (at least, not seriously).

...Well, at least if they handle Dean properly. One would think that giving him the DNC nod would get him out of the way for '08, but perhaps they fear his kingmaker ability if he holds that slot.

On the other hand, if Roemer gets the DNC nod, then the Dems get a pro-life front in the DNC and Senate (Roemer and Reid)...and that opens the Dems up for Roemer to favor Bayh in the '08 Dem primaries.

Do they want Dean out of the way...that they are doing Dean a "Favor" by giving him the DNC nod? Or do they want the pro-life front by giving the DNC nod to Roemer (gambling that he goes for Bayh)?

Clearly Bayh thinks that he has enough of a shot at getting the Presidential nomination in '08 that he isn't even *trying* for the DNC nod (ditto for Warner). Bayh, of course, is a very real threat to flip a Red state over to their side, instead. That's something that Hillary and Kerry haven't demonstrated that they could do very well.

But for Bayh to win the Dem primaries, he'd need strong Party backing (to keep their base of radicals happy). Frankly, that could happen with *either* Dean or Roemer in the DNC chair, under the right circumstances.

Of course, Kerry and Hillary are both capable of winning the Dem primaries; their electoral deficiency is in winning nationally...a feat that requires flipping Heartland states over to voting Coastal.

Three of the above players, it's worth noting, are from Indiana: Bayh, Warner, and Roemer. That's no coincidence. The Dems are going to put a Red State centrist on their '08 ticket, no question. There will be no Hillary/Kerry ticket, nor Kerry/Hillary.