Posted on 10/12/2006 2:28:50 PM PDT by Renfield
Mark Warner announced this morning that he's not running for president. As Prince Metternich asked when informed that the Russian ambassador had suddenly dropped dead, "What can have been his motive?" I suppose it was a calculation that he was just not going to overtake Hillary Rodham Clinton. And that the time, money, and effort required over the next 27 months or so were just not worth it. Warner has a fortune, made after he won a cellphone lottery, but not, I think, a big enough fortune to finance a presidential campaign.
A year ago I thought the Democratic field would pit Clinton against two little-known candidates, Mark Warner on her right and Russ Feingold on her left. Perhaps Warner calculated that there's not enough room on the right to win a Democratic nomination. Certainly, Joe Lieberman's fate in the 2004 race and then in last August's Connecticut Democratic primary tends to support that conclusion. Jimmy Carter could win, in a multicandidate field, in 1976; Bill Clinton, with his spectacular political skills, could win, in a weak field, in 1992; but Mark Warner evidently feels he couldn't win in 2008.....
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"....How does this leave the Democratic Party? Instead of Hillary versus two unknown but personally attractive candidates (at least that's how I'd characterize Warner and Feingold), it's looking more like Hillary versus various retreads: John Edwards, Al Gore, John Kerry. I'm inclined to think Kerry will win minimal support, but he seems determined to run. Gore's bitter denunciations of Bush and the Iraq war are evidently popular on the Democratic left. (It's interesting to remember that he ran as the moderate and hawkish Democratic candidate in 1988.)
Edwards seems to do better than Kerry in polls now, but it doesn't seem certain to me that his stump speech is going to enchant the press in the '08 cycle as it did in '04. His shtick on how many Americans live in poverty is going to wear thin. His stump speech includes a line about a little girl whose parents couldn't afford a winter coat...."
With the withdrawal of Warner, the Dems don't have anyone who's ready for the deep end of the pool...this is too funny...
Sounds like Hillary's camp found some dirt. I imagine we'll hear what that is if Warner pokes his head back out in public.
This means Al Gore vs. Hillary Clinton. Al is now the darling of the Left (who make up the bulk of primary & caucus voters for the defeatocrats). That means Al Gore has a decent shot at winning the nomination. I would advise Mr. Gore to refrain from flying in aircraft and walking in Ft. Marcy Park.
FBI Files are forever.
Don't let the door hit you on your way out!
Presidential material??
I think not!
Good Point, My Gut tells me the Moonbats want Gore more than Hilladouce.
Who is Mark Warner?
Oh Yeah, one more thing,lets not forget about Clark, he could fare a little better than Kerry.
who he? maybe his prob.
Former Virginia governor, and the only Democrat with any chance of winning the presidency in 2008.
I'm sure he had some homo-erotic episode that will be exposed to the media any day now.
Clark has so many skeletons in his military closet, he can't close the door. He has less than a snowball's chance in Hell. Don't worry about Clark.
He used to play guitar with Grand Funk Railroad.
Don't be shocked yet. This means a 4-way between Algore, Mrs. Bill Clinton, Kerry and Edwards.
They had 1 song I really liked - and for the life of me I can't remember the name. Something about "...my home" was repeated at the end. Help!
It didn't enchant the press in 2004, either -- at least not after the third time they heard it.
One of the reasons for Edwards' abysmal showing in the Democrat primaries in 2004 was that he completely alienated the press corps assigned to cover his campaign by giving the same stupid, tired old speech every freaking night on the campaign trail.
Even hard-core liberals among these media types could barely keep themselves awake long enough to file stories from the road.
That song has a great bass line in it.
The only question at this point is who will be the running mate - Richardson or Clark.
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