Rachael Maddow credits Howard Dean with a remarkable moment in the current family feud among Democrats when he admitted that in the 2004 Democratic Primary race he was ranting and raving in his hotel room while talking with Al Gore on the phone about how poorly he was being treated by his party.

He said that Al Gore told him it is not about you Howard, it is about the party at which time the light bulb came on and Howard left the race.

Today, in New York, Al Gore is holding a private meeting to raise funds and pundits are speculating that he is going to raise more than money. Nora O’Donnell thinks it signals that Al Gore is about to publicly cast his vote (who believes it will not be for Obama?).

And most importantly, that Howard Dean is signaling that the Democratic Party should pay attention to the increasingly influential one time Senator and Vice President who has reinvented himself as an international darling, filmmaker and entrepreneur whose nascent mystical power is making him The Godfather of the Democratic Party.

Chris Matthews was in awe of the epiphany that someone like Howard Dean could have that would cause them to put their party ahead of themselves. Message: Quit Hillary, Quit!

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