Bill Richardson withdraws
January 11, 2008 — wickleI didn’t really expect that, after his declarations after the NH primary.
But, apparently, he has decided to withdraw from his bid for the Democratic nomination.
This is a bit disappointing … frankly, I thought that he was the only Democrat remotely capable of being a President, and certainly the best qualified (his rivals had been Chris Dodd and Joe Biden). The best-qualified Democrat is now, probably, Dennis Kucinich. The celebrities have nothing like his experience or ability.
January 11, 2008 at 2:57 am
He’d make an excellent VP choice, in the very least.
January 13, 2008 at 1:38 am
The best of the Democrats were always marginized due to lacking the big name or “charisma”.
January 17, 2008 at 9:13 pm
I thought Biden was better qualified than Richardson, although Biden is so in favor of big government that I would never want him in.
Iowa’s Democratic caucuses are very un-democratic in that if you have less than 15% of the vote in a precinct your supporters either leave or go to another candidate. You could feasibly have 14% of the vote in every single precinct in Iowa and register 0% support. I think Biden and Dodd definitely had more than 1% support in Iowa, and Richardson more than 2%.