Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Richardson Starts Campaign
Governor Richardson continues to campaign in his bid for the White House in 2008. On a totally and completely unrelated note, Richardson's administration is buying a new $5.5 million corporate jet. I'm sure Richardson wouldn't even think of using that new jet to fly to campaign destinations. There will no doubt be a perfectly good reason (in terms of the wellbeing of the state of New Mexico) for the good governor to go to every location to which he takes the new jet. In a way that's probably even true as Richarson no doubt has political allies in NM who he would pay back if he became president. Possibly resulting in extra funds for various state p...p...p...pork, i mean projects. So maybe I shouldn't be too upset that my state taxes will help support Richardson for president.
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You know, I don't like Democrats. But Richardson is one who may be worth supporting. If he ran to the right of Republicans on foreign policy, then he's got a shot at winning. But he'd have to navigate the primaries and that's tough when their base is so antiwar (look at Lieberman and Gephardt in '04). I think the Democrats might run with a Clinton-Richardson ticket in '08 because Bill might help to mitigate the polarizing figure of Clinton. Honestly, though, I think Clinton will stick her finger in the wind, and if things look bad, she won't spoil her chances. Like it matters anyway - she's too much of a polarizing figure regardless.
The other wild card here (as Rush has stated on many occasions) is the border. If the Dem nominee runs hardline on border security, then Republicans are screwed. In that case, Richardson will not get the nod, as he is probably softer on border control, being a Latino governor in a border state - and he has made remarks in the past on Latino solidarity.
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