Posted on 11/11/2005 6:47:11 AM PST by areafiftyone
When he's asked whether he is running for president in 2008, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) usually bobs and weaves and says he's running for reelection next year. After that, he says, there'll be plenty of time to talk about '08.
But Richardson, former congressman, energy secretary, ambassador to the United Nations, globe-trotting troubleshooter and now author, seemed to be hewing a different line this week. Richardson's been in town, hawking his riveting new autobiography, "Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life."
Albuquerque's new baseball team may have gained some fans in North Korea. (Albuquerque Journal Via Associated Press)
He stopped first at the home of Clinton White House Chief of Staff Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty for a book party and then went on to old pals Elizabeth and Smith Bagley 's lovely manse in Georgetown for dinner with two dozen well-heeled folks, a majority of whom didn't know him.
The idea, according to several guests, was to have a little chat, a Washington gathering, a chance for important folks, friends of the Bagleys, to size up the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association and maybe down the road support his reelection bid. It was to be, we hear, a completely social event.
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I'm not taken in by Richardson, but I'm not his choir. He APPEARS to be a moderate and that's the key. He's also likeable, a quality that he holds over Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Biden.
His father is Caucasian and his mother is a Mexican National. BTW his mother was a big donator in his first Congressional run.
From the Albuquerque Tribune:
Editorial: Bouquets & brickbats
November 9, 2005
Brickbat: Bill-bored
Gov. Bill Richardson's new TV campaign ad is charming, positive and true to the governor's good-humored public persona. But the election it's said to be aimed at - the 2006 governor's race - is a whole year away.
Shades of premature Christmas displays and never-ending presidential campaigns! Will New Mexico voters never know peace henceforth?
The ad features two cowpokes chatting about the high cost of fueling the pickup and about how happy they are to get Richardson's tax-rebate checks in the mail. They allow that while the guv's suits don't fit, Richardson himself is a good fit for New Mexico. Richardson sports a nice smile in the ad, and the video-visuals - the classic New Mexico sunset in particular - are easy on the eyes.
It's all good. So is Christmas. But normal folks can take only so many sales pitches of any kind before becoming catatonic. The guv apparently started planning the ad several weeks ago - before the rebate bill was even passed by the Legislature. The ad at first touted the old, $50 minimum rebate figure from Richardson's original proposal - though the minimum rebate was later raised to $64.
Richardson may be a good fit for New Mexico, but his pre-emptive ad campaign is pulling the belt just a little too tight around the waist of public tolerance.
The dems problem is that their left wing seems to control who wins their primary. That person doesn't do well in the general election. If Richardson could get the nomination, I think he'd do dangerously well in the general election. But can he win the primary is a key question.
LOL!
I don't think so. From what I've been reading on the blogs and in the news the American people are tired of Washington Dems/Republican bickering. They may get disgusted and vote for a moderate like McCain. We at Free Republic seem to live in a bubble (a very nice bubble I might add) but I talk to people on the outside who are looking more toward the moderates because they are tired of the extreme bickering.
I sure hope you're wrong! But maybe I am in a bubble. Allen is first on my list.
I don't think he was all that great at DOE. The loss of secret information from Los Alamos (in his home state of NM, no less) occurred on his watch. He let Alec Baldwin and Christie Brinkley (noted nuclear physicists both) browbeat (or maybe Christie did some other kind of favor) him into trashing the incredibly productive and utterly benign research facility, the High Flux Beam Reactor, at Brookhaven Lab, and throwing many good, hardworking people out of work in the process, ruining their lives and careers.
But none of this mattered when it came to electing the bum Governor of NM. Likewise it won't matter to people when they elect the scumbag President. Rotten, lousy scum all of them...
Years ago Richardson was on C span lying to the FBI about Monica at the UN ...we now know he can lie with the best of them...It should make an interesting tape to review someday
He went on to Tufts University, where he majored in French and Political Science. He then added a master's degree from Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy . He met his wife, Barbara Flavin , in Boston.
He's as Hispanic as George P. Bush, son of Jeb Bush, is.
Its going to be a tough race. The Dems are really going to try hard this time to take the White House - we are in for a big fight. We need a winner - someone who can bring in moderates/on the fence people as well otherwise we will have another 2000 election again where we have to count the votes again UGH! Statistics say only 30% of the U.S. votes and the vote is split 50/50 among Dems and Republicans. It's the moderates/Independents and on the fence people that swing the vote either way.
Dave, If King Bill is elected he will demand undated resignation letters from everyone in the federal government to keep on file, the way he has in NM (including congress, if he can swing it!). I think he will out-Clinton the Clintons, after all he learned at the feet of Bubba.
New Mexico is just a practice run for his becoming First Emporer of the US.
Who do you think fits your bill?
Richardson, is as corrupt as Clinton's.I think he won the governors race in New Mexico because the Clintons wanted to pay him back for all of his loyal service.. Remember the computer disks from Los Alamos showing how to disarm U.S. and other nuclear weapons the two disks, each about the size of deck of cards, reappeared behind a photocopier you know like the files Hillary didn't have but were found ..Bill was busy covering it up for the other Bill..
This is what Richard Shelby said during the hearing on those disk...Whether you continue as secretary of energy is ultimately the president's call," said Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala. "I can tell you, however, that I believe you've lost what credibility you have left on Capitol Hill, and I think it's time for you to go, to be responsible, to be accountable to the American people."
Richardson does not qualify for what Gene McCarthy said of Walter Mondale, "Mondale has the soul of a Vice President."
As for Joe Biden, the headline of this article says all that you need to know. "Joe Biden said he was Running Yesterday!" Yesterday is a good time for Biden to run. Today is a really bad idea. And tomorrow is right out, as Monty Python was wont to say.
Congressman Billybob
Anybody here ever hunt?
Young bucks will always stick their head up first. Older, wiser bucks will wait, even let the does lead. Thats why they are older.
These guys raising their hand this early wi not survive th process...to eager.
Richardson does not qualify for what Gene McCarthy said of Walter Mondale, "Mondale has the soul of a Vice President."
As for Joe Biden, the headline of this article says all that you need to know. "Joe Biden said he was Running Yesterday!" Yesterday is a good time for Biden to run. Today is a really bad idea. And tomorrow is right out, as Monty Python was wont to say.
Congressman Billybob
But he sounds rational, so the Dems won't chose him.
I know MoveOn is loving the fake-republican democrats that are winning election now, but there's no way they are going to support someone like a Leiberman, a Mark Warner, or a Bill Richardson (who cut taxes) for their Presidential Candidate.
They expect payback for their millions, and they will insist on a liberal presidential candidate. They already seem upset with Hillary for leaving her liberal roots and pretending to be a moderate.
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