Out of curiosity, who was it that she ended up owing a shit load of money to the last time?

Dean's campaign didn't make it through New Hampshire. Clinton obviously didn't win, but she remained competitive through the entire Primary process. And I'm inclined to believe a saavy politician learns from her mistakes.

Tad Devine signs on to work with Bernie Sanders on potential 2016 run
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has spent months fishing for a strategist to guide his potential 2016 presidential campaign. On Monday, he hooked a big one: Tad Devine, one of the Democratic Party’s leading consultants and a former high-level campaign aide to Al Gore, John Kerry, and Michael Dukakis.

“If he runs, I’m going to help him,” Devine said in an interview. “He is not only a longtime client but a friend. I believe he could deliver an enormously powerful message that the country is waiting to hear right now and do it in a way that succeeds.”

Devine and Sanders, who first worked together on Sanders's campaigns in the 1990s, have been huddling in recent weeks, mapping out how the brusque progressive senator could navigate a primary and present a formidable challenge to Hillary Rodham Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Sanders Inches Closer to 2016 Presidential Run, Hires Top Dem Campaign Strategist

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has been toying with the idea of running for president in 2016 as a Democrat for a few months now. He’s been to Iowa to discuss the idea, and spoke about running in September on Meet the Press.

On Monday, Sanders moved even closer towards officially throwing his hat in the ring, hiring one of the Democratic Party’s top consultants, Tad Devine, the Washington Post reported.

Devine – a former campaign aide to Al Gore, John Kerry, and Michael Dukakis – and Sanders have worked together in the past on Sanders’s campaigns in Vermont in the 90s.

“If he runs, I’m going to help him,” Devine told WaPo. “He is not only a longtime client but a friend. I believe he could deliver an enormously powerful message that the country is waiting to hear right now and do it in a way that succeeds.”

He's already said he won't run as an Independent, so either he's running as a Democrat or he's not running.

Which can happen at any time or not at all.

instead of a trivial paperwork exercise.

And I will not support a candidate who is not a Democrat, even one I agree with. Bernie Sanders said it best.
If Bernie Sanders Runs For President, It Won’t Be as an Independent: “I will not be a spoiler”

In our system, an independent candidate for President is a spoiler.

Teddy Roosevelt, the most successful third party candidate in history (He had already been a Republican President) could not win, but neither did Taft.

Perot leached sufficient centrist and Republican votes so that Clinton won by a plurality.

And then there was the 2000 Florida Debacle.

Sanders is a brilliant man and a brilliant politician who understands what a third party candidacy would likely mean. He clearly has not desire to see a Republican President. Until he commits himself and changes party I will not consider him in any way as a candidate for President. It you want to do that, then you should write him daily and tell him to join the Democratic party.