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Bill Richardson
Is anyone else out there hoping this guy gets the nomination. I know I am sounding like Kucinich (crazy) now, but I am at least hoping that this guy gets the nomination!
this is an international website. how bout you yanks put in a bit more description in your threads? 
Richardson is by far the most qualified and experienced individual in the race.
Which is exactly why he won't get the nomination. Qualified and experienced people tend to not be popular enough.
He is most likely to be the person tagged as a running mate by whomever does get the nod though.
Both Gore and Kerry made mistakes in choosing Senators with sketchy credentials as running mates in the last 2 elections, I doubt the democrats are going to do that again this time. It will be Richardson or Dodd I think.
As much as people dislike Bush, it was the promise of experienced people in high level positions that got him a lot of swing voters in 2000.
MrS
I watched the debate tonight. Richardson was definitely one of the best the dems had on the stage, and definitely one of the more qualified candidates. Most of them just sounded like characters from South Park...."Rabble rabble rabble! Listen to me! I was the first person to propose this stupid idea that never went anywhere! Me me me!! Look at me!". The ex-senator from Alaska is great! He calls them all out.
I think that if Hillary gets the nomination, she needs to appoint Richardson as her VP. Richardson will make up for her socialistic views, and it will get her a lot of fiscal votes. Just a strategy I would use.
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN this is an international website. how bout you yanks put in a bit more description in your threads? |
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| Originally posted by Shakka I watched the debate tonight. Richardson was definitely one of the best the dems had on the stage, |
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| Originally posted by HardTranceProd I didn't watch the debate but from the various analyses I've read in the papers it looks like Richardson completely blew it. |
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| Originally posted by Shakka Richardson wore cowboy boots. Yeehaw! |
Thinking back to the debate (directed at HTP), Richardson did suggest that the U.S. should boycott the Olympics in China if they don't lean harder on the Sudan. Maybe that's something that the pundits are picking up on as a negative in his performance.
Well Richardson isnt presidential enough. Also, I dont think Obama is as great of a speaker as people make him to be. I thought he was weak yesterday. I think he is weak period. I thought Edwards made a better case for himself, even though I hardly support what the guy said. Anyways, the best ticket for democrats is Hillary and Richardson. For right now at least.
if i had to pick a Democrat(barf), Richardson would be my choice.
this country loves Executives and he's the the only one with that qualification and experience (Obama is at the extreme other end of that spectrum)
New Mexico isn't exactly NY, TX or CA but he's done a real good job there.
Clinton is a Socialist...good luck with that
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| Originally posted by Kapedan Anyways, the best ticket for democrats is Hillary and Richardson. For right now at least. |
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| Originally posted by stevieboy32808 I love that combination. |
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| All Talked Out Bill Richardson rambled his way out of the vice presidency last night. By Michael Graham Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. � Abraham Lincoln Governor Richardson, I�ve got a message for you from President Lincoln: �Too late." All the Democrats in Sunday night�s New Hampshire debate had one thing in common: The more they talked, the worse they sounded. And the poster boy for this trend was indisputably Bill Richardson. Who�s been spreading the idea that Richardson is the �break out� candidate in this race? He was lousy in the last debate and worse in this one. Richardson�s rambling, ill-informed musings were so jaw-droppingly awful, the voters of New Mexico may be tempted to impeach their governor out of sheer embarrassment. Gov. Richardson may be the first presidential candidate in history to talk himself out of the vice presidency. From a performance standpoint, the indisputable winner was Sen. Joe Biden. But even he ended up talking away his own victory. Biden�s success came largely from his common sense and his passion. His spirited efforts to explain the basic workings of American government to the nutroots in his own party (ably represented by Dennis Kucinich) were refreshing, inspiring, even. Biden is solidly critical of the war in Iraq and President Bush, but he also understands that sending soldiers to fight and not paying for the war is an unconscionable mistake that the American people won�t support. He was angry that his fellow Democrats abandoned the troops, and it showed. But Biden didn�t know when to turn it off. He seemed pretty steamed about everything else, too. Darfur, �don�t ask, don�t tell,� immigration � at one point he even used the phrase �speaking truth to power.� You go, Joe! One got the sense that, if Wolf Blitzer asked him for the time, Biden would have shouted, �Time to wrap up this damned debate, Wolf! C�mon, let�s tell some truth here. Everyone in America is watching the Yankees-Red Sox game, fer cryin� out loud!� It didn�t help that some of the �truth� Biden was speaking closely resembled nonsense. Saying it was time to end our support for regime change in Iran � long the world�s number one terror sponsor � Biden defended this position by claiming the Iranian economy is so weak they�ll be importing crude oil by 2014. Perhaps he meant gasoline, but regardless, he also dismissed Iran�s nuclear threat by promising that if Iran �stuck a [nuclear] missile on a pad, I�d take it out.� And if the Iranians stick the nuke on a truck and give the keys to Hezbollah, Sen. Biden�? And yet, if we may speak a little political truth to power here, the most important fact about Biden�s candidacy is that he�s not going to be the nominee and everyone knows it. In part, he�s a victim of the quality of the field (Clinton, Obama, Edwards), but it�s also true that, like the last Democrat with �Joe-Mentum,� Sen. Biden�s tough-minded foreign policy represents a minority view inside the Democratic party. As a candidate, Joe Biden is no more relevant than Dennis Kucinich. In fact, it is likely the case that Kucinich�s lunatic �No War For Oil� ravings have more support among Democratic primary voters than Joe Biden. In other words, a key constituency among Democratic primary voters in 2008 will be insane people. The more the first-tier candidates talked last night, the more it became apparent they were struggling to reach out to the crazies without becoming crazy themselves. Clinton, Obama and Edwards had no answer to the Kucinich challenge (�If the war is really immoral, how can you continue to fund it?), so they blathered nonsense about who was really against the war first. Barack Obama seemed utterly lost at times, blaming Osama bin Laden�s escape from Tora Bora (December, 2001) on the fact that we were distracted by war with Iraq (March, 2003). By the way, where is this engaging, inspiring Barack Obama we keep hearing about? He has yet to show up for any of the debates. Conservatives have long insisted that politics isn�t such a tough job, that a lack of �inside the Beltway� experience is a benefit, not a problem, but Sen. Obama may be proving that theory wrong. He�s clearly a smart guy, but even straightforward questions seem to catch him flat-footed. An audience member asked the rather simple question �Why can�t veterans use the hospital of their choice?� In other words, why are they stuck in the VA system? Great question, the kind that the average NRO reader could handle on an off day. But Sen. Obama was stumped. He stammered and stumbled and then eventually suggested it might have something to do with prescription drugs � as though the drugs veterans use aren�t available at CVS. Last night, Sen. Obama proved yet again that the idea of his candidacy is a lot more appealing than listening to the real thing. Sen. Clinton was her usual, professional self: prepared, pleasant, generous. She knows her greatest challenge is her image, and she took every opportunity to appear friendly and collegial. Using Gov. Richardson�s performance negotiating away North Korea�s nuclear program was, perhaps, generous to a fault given the facts on the ground. But it served her purpose. In the end, frontrunner Hillary won last night because a) she didn�t lose; and b) nobody else made any meaningful progress. She was also helped by the fact that, according to numbers provided by the Chris Dodd campaign, she spoke 1:34 less than Barack Obama |
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| Originally posted by Q5echo funny you say that. reminded me of an article i read today. i don't agree with a lot of it but... |
agreed. he's a real hot head. hotter than McCain. long history of verbal gaffes and inappropriate comments.
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| Originally posted by Q5echo Clinton is a Socialist...good luck with that |
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| Originally posted by HardTranceProd I'd much rather channel my taxes into funding universal healthcare than have them be wasted on a pointless and antagonistic missile shield that makes this country the "#1 terrorist nation" and bully in the eyes of the world (even more dangerous than NK). As a matter of fact, if my taxes are used to fund universal healthcare (as in every other developed nation), I enjoy lower rates of crime and certain other benefits resulting from a smaller number of insane and untreated individuals in the population (read: VT massacre). |
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| Originally posted by Shakka Do you even pay any taxes? |
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| Originally posted by HardTranceProd Of course I pay taxes, why do you ask? |
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| Originally posted by HardTranceProd I'd much rather channel my taxes into funding universal healthcare than have them be wasted on a pointless and antagonistic missile shield that makes this country the "#1 terrorist nation" and bully in the eyes of the world (even more dangerous than NK). |
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| As a matter of fact, if my taxes are used to fund universal healthcare (as in every other developed nation), I enjoy lower rates of crime and certain other benefits resulting from a smaller number of insane and untreated individuals in the population (read: VT massacre). |
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