Apparently, Iceman wants to be New Mexico's Governor. Let the lulz begin.

Texas Toast

Chris Cilliza and Perry Bacon report on the travesty that Governor Howard Dean is without a job.  Anyone who's been reading us for a while knows that I have a high opinion of Governor Dean, so you shouldn't be surprised to find out that I am rather angry at the treatment that our party is choosing to give Dean. Let me say it up front: without the Governor, we would have had no victories in 2006 and 2008. 

There's plent more below the fold.

Before getting into the content of this morning's post, I'd like to say that it's kind of an honor to fill in for Texas Toast. I know him from college, and he's a fierce thinker.  I'm really thrilled that we were able to recruit him, and I'm sure that you guys will love his writing.

If you look to the right side of this page, you'll see that we link to exactly two Republican blogs: The Next Right and Patrick Ruffini.   I'll give you one guess as to what both of those sites have in common. Okay, it's Patrick Ruffini.  For those of who don't know him, Patrick is the guy who used to run the online division at the RNC and then left that to go run it for Giuliani. Since then, he's started his own consulting firm and has also launched The Next Right with a few collabortators.  The goal of the site is to try and use data in interesting ways to make positive and normative statements about the trajectory of the GOP coalition.  It usually makes for a great read, and I heartily recommend it to anyone.

This morning, however, I read a post from Patrick that was just dead wrong, and disappointingly so.

There's more.