Sounds like he is running to me!
Bashing him on this forum will be so much fun.
His history is full of targets.
I think Richardson could spell trouble, even for a candidate like George Allen. He is not one of these shrill dems and he talks a reasonable game. He has lots of experience and he appears to be likeable and a regular human being, the opposite of a John Kerry.
Room Temperature Intellect Joe, save yourself the embarrassment. You are a lousy candidate.
Ah hmm. Richardson and Warner in 08.
Richardson will run on his hispanicism, his experience as Energy Sect (never mind losing/selling out the keys to the nuke labs to the Chinese), his UN ambasssador(never mind details like pimping a job for Monica) and his expertise with North Korea (our "next great threat"). Warner will provide toothsome southern photogenic backup and talk up his business experience.
If they win the same enclaves as Kerry and add Virginia and New Mexico to the blue camp...they will win by the electoral votes.
Here is a little info from one of our local blogs.
What's Richardson Doing in NM?
So everyone is talking about it... ok, maybe not everyone. Apparently, the East Coast news media couldn't believe the Governor was in New Mexico. Frankly, I'm just as surprised. It's rare the Governor finds the time to visit the Land of Enchantment. Although when he does, he prefers to be looking down on everyone:
Gov. Bill Richardson climbed into a state-owned airplane parked on a runway at a small airport in Santa Fe. The plane took off with Richardson and several of his staff members aboard, and landed a short while later on a high mountain airstrip.
The flight time? Ten minutes.
The destination? Los Alamos
State aviation bureau records show that Richardson has used three, multimillion-dollar state airplanes 113 times between his 2003 inauguration and mid-September of this year. Richardson has used the airplanes to travel, among other places, to Dulce, Albuquerque, Gallup, Farmington, San Francisco, Calif., Las Vegas, NM.
The latter trip, like most in-state flights by the governor, is one most New Mexicans make in a car. But while the governor was being ferried through the skies in a state aircraft, his security officers drove his state-owned Lincoln Navigator so Richardson and his staffers could use the luxury SUV at their destination, two sources confirmed.
Maybe I'm not being fair to Governor Richardson. After all, he did promise New Mexicans he would no longer speed on our highways. Obviously, he is just keeping his promise. Plus, think of all the gas expense he is saving taxpayers by flying on planes and having his security detail drive around in hybrid vehicles.
...Bill Richardson...wasn't he just yesterday not involved in a plane crash that didn't kill him? I think Mary Mapes is writing a book on this catastrophe that almost didn't not happen.
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.
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
Yipee, Biden and Richardson running for President. Yes, give Hillary the boot.
Not so sure about this one. *Hypothetically* speaking, (cough), revelations of a past affair with a married Congresswoman from California wouldn't help anyone's presidential campaign, especially among female voters...