No really, just shoot me:
The Virginia Democratic State Central Committee voted yesterday to hold a primary next year to choose the party’s candidate for governor amid growing indications that there could be a three-way fight for the nomination.
Terry McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee who has been mentioned as a possible candidate for governor, said yesterday that he plans to start a 30-locality tour of the state this month to campaign for Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Senate candidate Mark R. Warner. But the tour could also serve as a test of McAuliffe’s appeal with the Democratic activists who play a crucial role in electing the party’s nominee for governor.
“Clearly, I won’t rule it out,” McAuliffe, a McLean resident, said of a bid for governor. “A lot of people have talked to me about it, but I said let’s just focus on this year. . . . By Election Day, I will have traveled to every corner of the state for Obama and Mark Warner.”
And Chris Matthews wants to run for Arlen Specter’s senate seat.
He has no appeal to Democratic activists.
They have mouths and are practitioners of moving lips.
Not to worry. These two will have a change of mind after they read this evening’s FT and WSJ – late, late, edition.
Crisis on Wall Street as banks fight for Life.
The economy is in meltdown; the first financial tsunami wave has hit. There’s no way that these two, in their current comforts, will want to be managing reduced revenues or re-arranging the chairs on this titanic.
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I’m gonna run too.
Anyone else hearing rumors that Joe Biden will step down?
If you said “Sarah Palin,” I’d help it go viral across the Inter Tubes.
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Biden is on the ticket to stay. The only ones saying that Biden should step down are the chicken littles, bitter Hillaryistas, or Republicans. I trust the political instincts or savy of neither. Indeed, if Biden were to step down, the election is over, and McCain wins.
No.
Whichever candidate replaces their VP pick will lose. I guarantee it.
Granted Palin has been sucking the oxygen out of the media for the last week or so, but that’s going to change now that economics is going to be front and center for a while.
I used the googles and the only mention of this that I could find came from nutty right wing blogs. They seem to be taking Biden’s recent comment about Hillary being as qualified or more qualified to be VP and Palin’s remark to Gibson about Obama regretting not picking HC. Sounds like they are grasping at straws and making something out of nothing.
Will Carville soon be announcing his run for Senate for East Bullshit?
Personall,y, I’d love to see Terry McAuliffe face “democratic activists”. Something tells me that has the potential for some real slapstick.
There are no words…other than “Oh, hell no.”
I really, really hope that McAuliffe runs for governor here in Virginia. Currently, we’re running two uninspiring, centrist candidates. I think McAuliffe is to the left of both of them. Also, he’s exciting, a team player, and can raise lots of money for himself and the Virginia Democratic Party. Also, his presence may keep the primary relatively clean, as he is a formidable fundraiser. I want to see a very high-profile campaign that registers lots more Dems and keeps our issues in the forefront, and a McAuliffe candidacy for governor would do that.
P.S. I was never a big fan of McAuliffe as head of the DNC, but he would bring real strengths for progressives to VA politics.
That Sarah Palin gal sure has opened up a lot of doors for the marginally competent and woefully inadequate. Just the thought of McAuliffe as governor of anything and Matthews in a Senate seat has me wondering if we should even have elections anymore. Just get some kind of pinata with the various offices wrapped up as candy and invite everyone to take a shot.
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