Howard Dean can be called a centrist in The People's Republic of Vermont, but he is in reality far left. He is no doubt the "flavor of the month" for the liberal media.
If (big if) a Democrat gets in the White House in '04 or '08, Dean may have a crack at a Cabinet post.
He is campaigning in reality not for President (get real!), but for the role the media created for John Anderson-John McCain-Bill Bradley-Jerry Brown. That is, the "idea man", the intellectual 'above the dirty politics as usual' ...