However, the Dean campaign is taking a very healthy attitude toward the whole thing.
"The governor's told him repeatedly that he should run if he wants," Joe Trippi, Dr. Dean's campaign manager, said at the campaign headquarters here. "I'm sure that along the way the governor's made clear that we want General Clark's support if he decides not to run for president. I assume every other candidate has done the same thing."I've seen Dean live and saw him on the tube, and he's been emphatically saying that it would be a good thing if Clark ran for president. It leads me to believe there's some kind of alliance going on here behind the scenes, BUT...
...the jumping for joy thing is still not in my immediate plans. Great big cynical me.