Friday, 13 October 2006
2008 Presidential Field Narrows
« Mayor Abramson Makes A Stand | Main | 4th District Update »Former Virginia Governor, Mark Warner has decided to not run for president in 2008. He cited family concerns as the primary reason for declining to run.
"I know these moments are never going to come again. This weekend made clear what I'd been thinking about for many weeks -- that while politically this appears to be the right time for me to take the plunge, at this point, I want to have a real life,"
I am guessing that the real reason he isn't running is because after testing the waters he came to a simple conclusion. Hillary Clinton has sucked up all of the oxygen in the room. By oxygen I mean all of the big money donors. Money is going to be very hard to come by with her in the race. And candidates can't survive long without money.
This is great news for Republican chances in 2008. Warner is one of about three conservative candidates that could win the Democratic nomination. Of course, I use the term conservative to mean only moderately leftist. But that is all you need to be positioned as a centrist candidate with the MSM.Many political observers saw Warner as a potential centrist candidate that could serve as an alternative to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who has not declared her candidacy but is expected to dominate the Democratic race in '08.
Without a centrist candidate, I doubt the Dems can win the red states necessary to recapture the White House. Good news for Republicans indeed.
Posted by at 4:41 PM in National Politics
