That is, if Howard Dean even remains in the party. He may do an end run like John Anderson did when he felt his party wouldn't listen to the voters (as many are arguing the Republicrats aren't) and kept losing elections.

After Anderson went indie, along came Reagan in Anderson's wake, and the rest is history.

You Repulicrats are even slower learning the lessons of recent history than you are reading the writing on the wall. Maybe.

For reals, though. Dean stands nothing to lose by deciding to go indie, and make common cause with Nader. The Republicrats will NEVER nominate him. He is too much in the bulldog mode, like Nader.

Republicrats like nice, sedate, refined, intellectual, millionaire noblesse oblige sorts of candidates. With a pedigree of some sort, like Al Gore had. Clinton was a Republicrat anomaly, and his crude Bubba-esque image isn't one the Republicrats want to see reflected back at them when they preen themselves in the pop culture mirror.

They loved Slick Willie about as much they did P Diddy and Eminem this year, eh?

Wouldn't that just get the Republicrats' undies in a bundle if Dean went indie on 'em?