"its going to be Clinton/Richardson."
Richardson has too many skeletons in his closet. I would say Clinton/Warner or Edwards/Obama.
What skeletons does Richardson have?
My own hunch is that Mark Warner is going to be the Dem presidential nominee in 2008. It just makes more sense than anything else. You can usually count on the parties to pick their best possible candidate, and I think that's Warner.
I don't think Richardson will be anywhere near the discussion. Outside his past, there's just something really off-putting about him personally. On every interview of him I've seen, in some very hard to define way he just seems to ooze mediocrity and lumbering incompetence.