Donnie --- appreciate the direct reply. One thing that can be said for your candidacy is that you actually have the balls to come on MyDD often to engage the netroots. Serious points for you (imagine Frost or Roemer coming to our blog 'hood to mix it up with the locals?).

Should you lose the race for DNC Chair, I hope you reconsider your decision to return to high tech. The party needs you full-time, and I'm sure the new Chair would love to have you on board. You pass the "Budweiser Test" in the South, so we certainly don't need you on the wine-and-cheese circuit in Silicon Valley. And, if Dean (my choice) becomes Chair, he's going to need your help figuring out how in the hell he's actually going to appeal to "guys with confederate flags on the back of their pickup trucks".  

OK --- I've got two questions for you, if you have the testicular fortitude to answer them:  

1. To date, you've framed yourself as the "alternative to Dean" (as opposed to the "anti-Dean") ready to "run right up the middle" of a potential Dean/Frost murder-suicide. So, along the spectrum of both "reform" and "ideology," do you see yourself as an ally of Dean or Frost? (pick one; no wiggle room allowed).

2. And, speaking of Howard, you guys seemed pretty chummy at the Sacto Caucus. Lots of laughs and snark, it would appear, especially after Roemer got the "red cards" (I'm sure you know what I'm talking about). So, if Dean takes the DNC Chair, would you get on board the Dean Team, if called to duty?