With all the difficulties of becoming President --- look who did. "Lucky" us. I can see where you have to be monomaniacal, but when did sociopathic, ignorant and dumb enter in. In any event, Mr. Shapiro, Hillary has lots of dough but no one in this party believes she can get within 20 points of anyone in the general, let alone St. McCain, who you people will canonize to a sickening degree the minute he descends from the clouds to annouce his intentions.

It's funny that Walter Shapiro says here that although he heard Mark Warner voice caution about the '08 race in September, he didn't believe it, because the Warner quotes in Shapiro's September story made me think he wouldn't run. Warner knew exactly what he was getting in to and he knew why he'd eventually turn away.

My useless hunch is that the nominee will be Edwards or Obama. I suspect Hillary Clinton and Al Gore won't run either.

Mark Warner's a good man.

And good men, alas, don't seek to become president.

"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaining for it is not to be trusted with the office." -- David Broder

This is, by far, the worst news that I've heard in a long while. Warner was really the strongest candidate the Democrats had available, and had the potential to draw independents and moderate Republicans into the fold.

Honestly, Clinton just can't do that. Even ignoring Falwell's mad ravings a few weeks ago, it is obvious that many conservatives curse her name and would even vote for a ficus tree over her. Of course, any liberal worth their stripes shouldn't be too happy with her candidacy either, as her positions have leaned more towards the moderate-to-conservative end of the Democratic Party.

Aside from Clinton, Obama will be seen as too inexperienced for a run at the top job, Clark hasn't really been in the public sphere since the primaries in 2004, and Biden... well... Biden is just not a pleasant fellow. I like Feingold, and I think that he's a strong, effective speaker, but he's just too easy to paint as an evil "liberal" in the eyes of the public.

It's really all riding on Edwards now, or maybe Bayh. Dodd would be okay, of course, but not awe-inspiring. But it is high time that we had someone that actually wouldn't seem like an also-ran even at the beginning of a run.

His psychoses, anxieties and confusion will destroy any hope of rationality...another Bush in the making...

Not that he is a bad man...just very, very,

Very, very… damaged...and pretty good at hiding it...danger, warning, whoop! Whoop!

I be scared to death just trying to type these here letters.

Hilliary, “the bitch”, is brilliant, as in intelligent, not crazy…any more than anyone in the political game

...and married to the most sensitive, intelligent, selfless (in most ways that count in legislating (i.e. feels the (lack of control)the masses feel when an unexpected event changes your family finances …forever.

She has verbal baggage, not really, not when you look at it (politically incorrect statements) from the Barrel of the Gun Bill and she faced weekly from the conservative religious manipulators...

she really was restrained considering the circumstances..

A safe bet that team may be for the 97% of us American citizens who need to have the corporate monster distracted from controlling every meaningful economic aspect of our lives and eventual freedom ... Corporate Moster : defined as - subcontracted government representatives for, the military, the prisons, the schools, the IRS, the …what’s next?

Whoops , paranoia again...

A few more laws and a few more years of a Bush clone and

‘These Letters we Write today in Salon’ - may very well get you imprisoned in the future....even if you never write another one…

You are already in technical violation of many new Alberto Gondolasnista interpretations and Legislative positions awarded to (and by) his cabal... to date... they can write a lot in two more years.

Vote for the talents that will be functioning as the future Presidential Cabinet of 2009 and beyond ...

Don’t be too concerned with your Emotions at election time...

Your Emotions Will Be Controlled by the Conservatives at election time.

Love, hate, fear and uncertainty, are all in bed having an orgy, whenever conservatives and their Base are at work…

Flipping emotional children (their base) from hate to love is a talent that takes but a moment. All they have to do is get a close election and they can reinterpret their way back in control of the government …their proxies are on the court

And they are dormant…when threatened by the prospect of a government controlled by the people, and not by bloodlined and angry violent, bigoted, Religiously Certain Corrupt Capitalists…they will awaken and protect their family fortunes and ideologies at the expense of all citizenry.

There is someone at my door…I’m afraid…I , I should run? Where? Call the media…umm no..they’ll turn me in…a lawyer …which one is not with ‘them’? Someone please tell me where I can be safe and feed my children. Who will protect me now… the Government?”

Help – please…

As a Republican, and a longtime Conservative activist in Iowa I'm delighted that Warner has dropped out. He was one of the few moderates in the liberals party and was certainly one of the

more electable dems for '08. What Hillary wants, Hillary gets! One less candidate in her way.

Bring on the coronation!

You wingnuts don't seem to know much about Democrats. I am definitely in the left wing of the Dems, and Hilary is NOT one of us nor was Bill. They are DLC centrists, considerably to the right of both Kerry and Gore and not at all supported by the left. Warner's views and Hilary's on most issues are hardly different.

I feel a sense of loss that Mark Warner has dropped out of the presidential race, hopefully he will return. Not because he is from a red state or because he is from a southern state but because he strikes me as a very down to earth and very HONEST man. Something America badly needs.

We will never get a shred of honesty from the Totalitarian Republican Theocrats, Bush is perfect proof of that and the rest of them are exactly the same Repubs first, Americans not at all.

I can't blame Warner for not wanting to subject himself and his family to the filthiest political machine ever, in America. I would not ever stoop that low. Politics now has nothing whatever to do with concepts such as patriotism, service to 'we the people' but only to greed and hate from the Repubs who now define all politics.