I’ll confess, my reaction to the second scenario below was “Ack!”

From CQPolitics.com:

Now that he has resigned as White House Chief of Staff, Andrew H. Card Jr. may end up returning to his home state of Massachusetts to run for governor, Washington Wire reports. However, other sources indicate that while Card will return to Masschusetts, he actually plans to aid Republican Gov. Mitt Romney in a bid for president in 2008.