Sen. Russ Feingold will not seek his party’s presidential nomination in 2008, the Wisconsin Democrat told the Journal Sentinel on Saturday.
Advertisement“I never got to that point where I’d rather be running around the country, running for president, than being a senator from Wisconsin,” Feingold said in a phone interview from Madison.
Feingold, 53, conceded that he faced long odds of winning the nomination.
“It would have required the craziest combination of things in the history of American politics to make it work,” he said.
On a related note, does the candidacy of Tom Vilsack excite anyone beyond Gov. Vilsack and his family? I don’t say that to be mean, I just don’t get the thinking behind it. Sure, if you had told me in 2002 that the former governor of Vermont would be a Democratic frontrunner and then the party chairman I would have asked you to pass the bong. Still.
I also will never understand the kabuki dance involved in this process. Does anyone actually believe John McCain when he says he’s going to discuss running for president with his family? The man has been in campaign mode since he lost to Bush in 2000. For whatever demerits he may have , at least Sen. Biden is honest enough to just say that he’s running (I love how progressives online swear that his vote on the bankruptcy bill is going to be what kills his nomination - people, nobody will care just like how no matter how much bloggers may dislike her, Sen. Clinton is more than a legitimate frontrunner in the nomination process).
Vilsack’s announcement generated a great deal of excitement! At least 3 corn fields in Iowa were visibly shaken and several others were left with crop circles. (Please pass the bong)
Glenn Greenwald has a different analysis of this fact: how consistently wrong the beltway pundit class is about everything. As he points out, when Feingold introduced his censure resolution, the whole DC puntitocracy was certain that this was just done as a stunt to shore up the left wing base for his ‘08 presidential bid, certainly because he, like, actually believed any of that nonsense…
If Biden’s bid is doomed, methinks the dooming element will be the personality factor. That said, I want Biden to be the next Secretary of State
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How about “his bankruptcy bill vote SHOULD doom his candidacy”?