[TomGuy]

If another Dem did happen to unseat GWB, that would push her bid possibly to 2012--and all the bookcover airbrushing in the world won't help her then. She'll have to run in 2004.

[Merovingian]

Buwahahahaaaaaaaa

Are you suggesting that by then she would be too old and ugly???

[oceanview]

she will not run in 2004, but it appears now she has to "fake a run" to weaken Dean, because she cannot afford to have a Dem win in 2004, and I think they are fearful of Dean mounting a campaign of the left combined with a Perot style populism, that might get him in. Rumors like this could swirl for months, and take the media attention away from Dean.