Decision ‘08

A Slew of 2008 Links

All of a sudden, real attention is beginning to be shown to the 2008 race; I’m not sure what to make of it - probably the whole proposition has gotten so expensive that the hopefuls are already beginning to fish around for buzz and donors. In any event, here’s a few from just the past couple of days:

Chris Suellentrop of Slate assesses George Allen in the L.A. Times, and notes how he’s quickly moving up the ranks…

Joe Klein, while acknowledging the frontrunner status of Hillary, hopes she won’t run - sorry, Joe, that circus is coming to town, whether you care to attend or not…

John Edwards is laying the ground work for 2008 by rightly disparaging the management of the 2004 campaign…

That’s not making perenniel loser John Kerry happy as he gears up for his exercise in futility (run, John, run! - I need the material)….

The latest Marist poll has Rudy G. and Hillary still heading for a showdown…

Robert Novak assess the potential candidacy of Mitt Romney…

And if that’s not enough for you, then get away from the computer awhile and go tell your mom Happy Mother’s Day!…

7 Responses to “A Slew of 2008 Links”

1 Dave Says:
May 8th, 2005 at 8:18 pm
This 2008 stuff is all coming together. It looks like we’ve got five serious candidates on the GOP side (Rudy, McCain, Frist, Allen, Mitt) and another five on the Dem side (Hillary, Kerry, Edwards, Bayh, Warner). I still think it’ll be Rudy v. Hillary, but who knows, we could end up with the battle of the former Virginia governors, Allen v. Warner.
2 Mark Coffey Says:
May 8th, 2005 at 9:15 pm
That’s a pretty good snapshot - I need to get Edwards and Warner up sometime soon, and Jojo mentioned Richardson on the Dem side, too - sheesh, my work is never done! Have a good one…
3 Clint Says:
May 8th, 2005 at 10:14 pm
You’re counting out Sanford, Huckabee, and Rice, already?

Seems premature.
4 Mark Coffey Says:
May 8th, 2005 at 10:27 pm
Clint makes a good point; Dave’s list is a good starting point, but the Republican side goes deeper than five (and I would put Condi in the top five, for sure).
5 Dave Says:
May 8th, 2005 at 10:33 pm
Well, I count Rice out due to her assertion on Meet the Press that if nominated she will not run, if elected she will not…you get the idea, Shermanesque statement. Jeb and Cheney seem to have made those too.

As for Sanford, Huckabee, Barbour, Pawlenty…in a party that tends to nominate frontrunners, I don’t see how those guys break through the field of giants that I’ve already outlined. I could be wrong, but…let’s put it this way, how many times has the Republican Party nominated a small or middle sized state governor or senator in the last 100 years who wasn’t vice president first???

Think about it.
6 Mark Coffey Says:
May 8th, 2005 at 10:59 pm
Dave, I guess I just don’t take Condi’s assertion seriously; maybe I’m wrong, time will tell. Barbour, I agree, is the longest of long shots - I do think Huckabee and Sanford make it at least to the primaries - Pawlenty, I just haven’t paid much attention to yet.
7 Decision ‘08 » Blog Archive » Novak Rides A Favorite Horse Says:
April 27th, 2006 at 10:15 am
[…] Perhaps I’m just hopelessly out of touch, but I find it odd that Mitt Romney’s religion keeps coming up in Robert Novak columns. I’ve commented on Novak and Romney twice before, once on May 8, 2005, and once on June 16, 2005, and both times the discussion seemed too focused on Romney’s Mormonism. […]