Daschle Unlikely to Run for President

Guardian Unlimited ^ | 02 January 2004 | Dennis Gale, Associated Press Writer

[MegaSilver]

He said he's worried the GOP will use many of the comments from the primary races against the nominee challenging President Bush in November.

Not that we'd need them, but we'll take whatever help we can get.

In head-to-head matchups for president, slightly more than 50 percent of the 604 likely voters in the sample chose President Bush over the top Democrats.

I read something QUITE different from CBS and ABC...

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[polemikos]

Daschle says it is unlikely he will ever run for president

I am deeply saddened.

[Freemyland]

And disappointed.

[mhking]

I don't think anybody asked Shorty the Barber in the first place.

Just damn.

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[geedee]

And tickled by the image. "Little People" Unite!

[nicmarlo]

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle says it is unlikely he will ever run for president and has no regrets about seeking re-election to the Senate this year rather than joining the fray for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Daschole is deeply saddened AND disappointed.

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[hattend]

Daschle may have a hard time staying in the Senate, let alone becoming president.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Run, Tommy, run!

Run, and never return.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Well, pass my smellin' salts. And I so thought he would throw his beenie into the ring someday. No future daschle-cams of the Whitehouse at Christmas. It's a sad day for all.

[gg188]

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle says it is unlikely he will ever run for president

Translation: Daschle will do what the Clintons tell him. WHEN they tell him. He, like other Dems, has seen what happens to people who cross them.

[GulliverSwift]

Wesley Clark says he will not be "Howard Dean's Dick Cheney" if the Democratic front-runner wins the party's presidential nomination.

"We've already tried that model of government," Clark told reporters Friday in Concord, N.H. "That's what's misled America thus far."

Clark said President Bush was a former governor, inexperienced in foreign policy, who surrounded himself with experienced advisers, including Vice President Cheney.

"He tried to reassure the American people by having a lot of highly experienced and competent advisers around," Clark said. "And we see the results right now in our presence in Iraq and the alienation of people around the world."

Clark compared Bush to Dean, the former governor of Vermont, but said his criticism did not apply to former President Clinton, once the governor of Clark's home state of Arkansas.

"Bill Clinton had several other things going for him, and the time was different," the retired general said. "This is a new era, especially after this current administration has done so much to wreck America's relationship with its allies and destroyed American esteem in the world."

Clark contends Dean asked him to be his running mate in a private meeting last fall before Clark had decided to seek the nomination himself. Dean has denied making the offer.

This is the real news of the piece. This remark ought to go down as another proof that Wesley Clark hasn't the faintest idea about campaigning. In one breath, he compares Dean to the "stupid" governor Bush and then in the next statement says that that critique wasn't valid against Clinton. Why? Because things are different. In other words: because I said so.

I keep hearing what a political genius BJ Clinton is but all of his prodigies (Reno, Bowles, Reich, Hitlery) disprove it in their actions and words

[RetiredArmy]

Heck. Now I'm sadden. It would have been another easy win.

[JohnnyZ]

The Republicans oftentimes say they have the 11th commandment: 'Never criticize publicly a fellow Republican.' And I think that's a commandment that both parties ought to adhere to," he said.

Wow, a good idea for once: "Democrats should never publicly criticize Republicans."

But Tommy definitely has his eye on 2008 if he can survive Thune, no matter what he says now. He can't take on Hillary and Gore, though.

[MegaSilver]

Daschle may have a hard time staying in the Senate, let alone becoming president.

I'd swtich my party affiliation for the year just to vote for him in the primaries. It'd be an easy win against Tommy.

[Dog Gone]

Daschle may have a hard time staying in the Senate, let alone becoming president.

A Bush rout, and Tommy is out.

From an unnamed GOP rap group

[Cicero]

Actually, it seems as if Daschle has dropped out of the news these past few months and is no longer on the radar screen. He has gone from being in the news almost every day to being in the news hardly at all. Other than all those "Daschle is deeply saddened" comments here in FR, he is virtually a nonperson.

Interesting. It's hardly surprising that he has been forced to reconsider his political future. In fact, I wonder why on earth he would want to be minority leader for six more years.

[Tacis]

Tommie saaying he will not run simply establishes that his wife is taking in such high revenue for "influenccing" his votes that he can't afford to put the bag lady out of work. To run, he'd have to show his (and, her) tax returns, something he deeply regrets not being able to do, because it would raise too many questions and charges of influence peddling.

As long as there are enough dead Indians voting in SD, Tommie the Commie can get reelected.

[Dubya]

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