It is Time for Bill Richardson to Retire From the Presidential Race
Pete Domenici is resigning, and Bill Richardson would be a great man to replace him. Bill, it is time to make a decision.
Pete Domenici is retiring, the latest Republican culture of corruption casualty. It is time for Bill Richardson to retire from the Presidential nomination race in the Democratic Party and take Domenici’s seat. From Chris Cillizza’s blog on the Washington Post:
Veteran Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) is expected to announce tomorrow that he will retire from the Senate in 2008, according to several informed sources, a decision that further complicates an already difficult playing field for Republicans next November.
Domenici has struggled with health problems over the last several years and has been dogged by questions about the role he may have played in the firing of U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias in Albuquerque. As a result, he had been long been rumored as a potential retirement. Domenici’s Senate office did not return a call this afternoon, but sources close to the senator say he will fly home to New Mexico tomorrow to make the announcement that he is retiring.
Richardson is a good man, and would make a fine President, but he’s outgunned in that race. He’d also make a fine Senator, no doubt. I’d like to see Bill Richardson leave the primaries right now and put his hat in the ring for Senator. Bill Richardson, it is time to make a decision. Help us get a bigger majority in the Senate, willya?
Watch out: you could get what you’re asking for.
Richardson is a corporate Democrat. He leans toward cronyism. He has been essentially endorsed by his state Republican Party,
I’m sure there’s someone better.
I dunno, Charles - I never considered Richardson as a DINO - however, being a politician from New Mexico, he would certainly be beholden to oil and gas interests.
He is one of the few who says he will get out of Iraq and that to me is the top pirority
Richardson wants to be Hillary’s veep. But I agree with Steve — we need him in the Senate.
Richardson is basically DLC : republican-lite, and so are Clinton, Biden and Obama.
His goals are more lofty than Senator. Frankly Democracy will be better served if he runs for president, fails and takes an obscure post in teh administration
Why not Igelsias, or is he too conservative?
Only someone who fears the attraction Governor Richardson for Republicans
who are looking for a rational alternative to their own pitiful pack of presidential wannabes
would suggest he give up the fight. Richardson is the most qualified candidate,
bar none, and the only Democrat who can win a national election. January
is a long way off; the first horses out of the gate usually don’t win the race.