[Mila]

"I think Richardson is a bigger threat than Hillary Clinton."

My thinking on this is along the same line as yours. I know the Dems are dumb, but somewhere along the line they have to realize that a Hillary nomination is just not going to fly. Apart from trying to be the first woman(?)candidate, Hillary has too many skeletons, too much questionable history,too disliked by too many, and of course, too much Bill. If the light dawns on them that Hillary is not the one, they may well look to someone like Richardson.Then the battle for 2008 will be a little more challenging.

[johnny7]

The Dem party-base is all for appeasement... right now they would vote for a Feingold over ANY(even Hillary) candidate who supported the war.

Richardson was not involved in the vote... but he'd have to come out bigtime against our involvement in Iraq.

[Reily]

Richardson is an incredible grandstanding publicity hound.
Which I guess might be a plus for a politician, however I found him to be very transparent. He may have some scandal troubles ahead because their a strong rumor that he as the source of the leak that 'Won Ho Lee' was the FBI prime suspect. Now that Lee has been cleared of any espionage crimes, he is now suing DOE, FBI etc & probably Richardson for leaking his name to the media.