David Brooks sees the same things I do in Bill Richardson. A damned fine candidate.
When you think that way, it becomes absurdly easy to picture him rising toward the top. He is, after all, the most experienced person running for president. He served in Congress for 14 years. He was the energy secretary (energy’s kind of vital).
He’s a successful two-term governor who was re-elected with 69 percent of the vote in New Mexico, a red state. Moreover, he’s a governor with foreign policy experience. He was U.N. ambassador. He worked in the State Department. He’s made a second career of negotiating on special assignments with dictators like Saddam, Castro and Kim Jong Il. He negotiated a truce in Sudan.
When Professor Kim asked last year what kind of Democrat I'd vote for, I gave my answer here, and although Richardson doesn't have the moustache, he does have most of the other particulars.
In other news I watched about 3 unbearable minutes of Mitt Romney on a Charlie Rose interview from last year. Every time I look at him, he appears more and more plastic. I'm not quite ready to ditch him yet, but the more he talks about social issues the more he gets on my nerves.
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