Could you imagine an Al Gore/John Dean ticket in '08?

[eleny]

It could create a shitstorm.

Well, maybe they could just go on a joint speaking tour together. Combine forces to make people aware of why the sky is falling. Get all the poop in a group.

[jobycom]

1. Both men are too decent to want the job

Which might make them perfect for it.

[eleny]

4. And Dean served time in jail

But I'd like to see them join together on a lecture tour down the road. Knit together the why of things in a digestible way.

[MADem]

10. No, he didn't. That story is still out there, but it isn't correct

He was in protective custody. After he cooperated, they morphed his 'custody' into time served, but he was living comfortably and he was being hidden from any possible assassination attempt, which was a real worry at the time:

JOHN DEAN: Technically, let me correct you. I really never did go to prison. I was 127 days in the custody of the U.S. Marshalls because I was in the Witness Protection Program. The government was very concerned about keeping me alive. I really have not let that get corrected over the years. It's out there on the web. It's on different sites.

AMY GOODMAN: Weren't you in prison?

JOHN DEAN: I was not in prison.

AMY GOODMAN: Weren't you in jail?

JOHN DEAN: I was not in jail.

AMY GOODMAN: In detention?

JOHN DEAN: I was in custody and would stay in a safe house at night. I spent most of that time in the U.S. -- excuse me, in the Watergate Special Prosecutor’s office. I was driven to the office every day from the safe house. I was actually during the time that the trials were going on, I was in the courthouse in the prosecutor's office.

AMY GOODMAN: Wasn't it a sentence?

JOHN DEAN: It was part of a sentence -- well, yes. It became the sentence, the judge after -- had sentenced me just before the trial started, and after 127 days later, said time served.

AMY GOODMAN: And that time you had served in the prosecutor's office?

JOHN DEAN: More or less.

AMY GOODMAN: You never served a night in any kind of detention facility?

JOHN DEAN: Well in a safe house, yes.

AMY GOODMAN: With other people?

JOHN DEAN: There were other government witnesses in that facility, yes. My next door neighbor happened to be former mafia hit man who once told me, you know, John, I always liked Richard Nixon until I realized he wasn't a very good criminal.

AMY GOODMAN: Is that place still a house of detention?

JOHN DEAN: I don't know. They don't -- they don't advertise it. It's part of the witness protection program. Well – Anyway, a technical point that I just thought I would clear up.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/06/1354218

[eleny]

11. All these years, I thought he "did time" in jail

Thanks so much for this clarificaton and correction. I should watch Amy more often now that she's even back on our PBS at night.

[Avalux]

2. Hmmmm. Well -

Dean still describes himself as a Goldwater conservative so he'd never run as a Democrat. In light of what he's been doing recently though, the thought isn't entirely adverse to me.

[Sherman A1]

3. I have some other ideas in mind

for a ticket, but this one certainly works for me. Chances of happening.... Me thinks not so good....

[longship]

5. Dean is registered independant, but is a Republican at heart.

He would never run as a Democrat.

I really like him, BTW. But what you ask is just not possible.

I think what he is intending with his books and public appearances is to try to take back the Republican party from the lunatics. Of course, this would be a good thing for the country.

[eleny]

9. You;re right about Dean, of course

But I sure would like some straight talkers to emerge with the nomination.

[bowens43]

6. No.

[FrenchieCat]

7. ?

[eleny]

8. Love that smiley!

[robcon]

12. In a word,

NO

[NJ Democrats]

13. How old is Dean

I vote no to this ticket, btw.

[Southsideirish]

14. Great idea -I'll buy anything, however, with Al Gore at the top!

[saltpoint]

15. If Al Gore runs, I believe he'll choose to ask the convention delegates

to nominate Schweitzer, maybe. Or Kathleen Sebelius. Or Alexis Herman.

I listen to John Dean when he's on the news often, and appreciate his perspective, but I'm not getting a strong Democratic vibe from him.