Letters to the Editor
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Why should he quit?
I gotta say, he made some salient points, points worth listening to, in the Manchester debates. I don't see the need to thin the herd yet more at this point: there have been 3 primary-type contests in a union of 50 states, plus DC. Let's here what all the candidates have to say. We have 6 months until the convention.
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He'd Have to Be Crazy
... to quit before the Democratic "Caucus" (more a primary, actually) in his own state. I agree with JulieBird about his performance in the Saturday debate - he made more sense in some critical areas that any of the "big two" (and John Edwards).
While they were trying to out-manly each other on the question about sending combat troops into Pakistan, if "actionable intelligence" suddenly materialized, he was for handling it via talk. TALK! Diplomacy, instead of unprovoked air strikes within a country that the US hasn't declared war on!
If he were to have been brutally honest, and I wish he were, he might have mentioned that these sudden "surgical strikes" and "commando raids" appear NEVER to have worked. Sure, we've wiped out scores of innocents - but hitting the target? By striking based on information that's HOURS OLD at a minimum, by the time the Pentagon can marshal its forces? It's a bureaucracy, you know. Reality is not a movie or teevie script. These "instant responses" take time. A lot of time.
Gov. Richardson also said that the US ought to quietly ask General President-for-Life Musharef to just resign. He insisted we had enough influence to make it stick, and that we'd done similar things often in the past. The fact that he struck a nerve there is indicated by the rightwing editorials that have been coming out against him on this issue since the debate.
No, let Bill be Bill, and let him stick in there, at least through "Tsunami Tuesday." He's unlikely to become President in this election cycle, but I'd really like to see him as Secretary of State.
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All he'd been doing was angling for a position in the Clinton administration anyway
I don't know. It just seemed to me like he accepted Hillary's supposed inevitability early on and had been positioning himself in hopes of securing a good position in her administration.
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Richardson will be missed
I liked Richardson and I think something is wrong with our system when experienced, qualified candidates are dropping out after only two primaries. Richardson should have stayed in until Feb. 5th.
The whole message of this election--that experince and knowledge don't matter and that style counts over substance is a bad message for our country.
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Sen. Richardson?
The deadline for filing for the open Domenici NM Senate seat is in a few weeks. He may be considering that. I hope he is. He'd be a favorite to turn that seat blue.
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D-Mexico
Richardson had many obstacles. Is it telling that last night C-SPAN's caption was "Bill Richardson, D-Mexico"?
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@TK
It's okay - we're used to it. In fact, it's an inside joke that "One of our Fifty is Missing", every time we're assumed to be a foreign country.
There really is no reason for Bill to drop out, this soon.
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/headdesk
See, this illustrates why I dropped my subscription (and keeping Paglia around). Rather than repeating lazy reporting, you could have just--here's something crazy-- CALLED the campaign.