Governor Ron Ramsey?

That's what would happen in TN if Phil Bredesen becomes Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Bredesen is a healthcare guy.

And he's clean.

And he's a Southern Governor.

So, those things play in his favor.

But would he leave the state to GOP control for DC? And how might this impact a possible Bredesen bid for U.S. Senate in 2012?