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Howard Dean takes on his image in ad for Yahoo search engine.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2004

By Sarah Schweitzer, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 7--As Democrats licked their wounds after President Bush's reelection last week, some turned their thoughts back to Howard Dean, the Democratic firebrand who energized the party with his strident opposition to the war in Iraq and with his Internet-based fund-raising operation.

But as some mused about what might have been with a Dean nomination, the former Vermont governor was serving as pitchman for Yahoo! Local, an Internet search service. Dean is the star of a radio advertisement that parodies his shout-out of the states where he planned to campaign after he lost the Iowa caucuses.

Dean's decision to push a commercial product has raised questions about...

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