Centerfield

Evan Bayh has said he is "doing everything needed to realistically make a run for the presidency" as well. He said it a couple months ago and I haven't heard much from him since.

I like Dodd, seems to be a reasonable fella. Don't know enough specifics to make an educated judgement, though. He does have an uphill climb if he wishes to get the nomination, though.

Several days of no comments to this thread is more telling than anything, especially when compared to a hillary thread that quickly tallied 19 comments.

I know zero of Dodd and he works in the state next door. No sense of the guy at all. That suggests a real recog and charisma deficit, strikes one and two. And IMO, HC is the only democratic candidate who can get through the primaries with any stink of any sort of Iraq war support. That's 3 strikes for Dodd.

Of course, there is the real possibility he's launching a candidacy to be the token democratic candidate willing to be responsible, realistic, and forward looking on foreign policy. [Not to mention coherent. I'm not saying this as flame at democrats. It's just that I can't help recalling that the only time John Kerry ever made sense on Iraq is when he talked details about "his" plan, only it tended to match what we were already trying toi do. The rest of the time, he was just full of it.]

If Dodd is willing to be the one democrat who is willing to let go of re-hashing decisions already made and push for a "where do we go from here" policy that's not going to include backing down in the war against islamic fundamentalism, he has my support.

I think it's important that at least one democratic primary candidate carries the banner Lieberman carried in 04. Hillary Clinton has IMO been pretty decent in the foreign policy statements that I have heard, but I worry that she is soon going to start weaseling on all cylinders and try to have it both ways. At least one person on the debate stage has to keep her honest and stop the coterie of pacifistic frontrunners from playing the game of "I'm more against imperialism than you are.... "

IMO, the more HC seems like Margaret Thatcher, the better her ultimate chances of winning the Presidency. But Maggie won't sell in the primaries, so HC faces a challenging weasel path of selling some sort of Maggie Light with Alittle bit of OF I DUNNO who, maybe Eleanor Roosevelt mixed in...

Perhaps his idea is to run for the VP slot - although that seems to raise difficulties in and of itself. If the nominee is Hillary (and given the increasingly frequent and desparate tone of the Kossack attacks on her, it seems likely), she will be well-advised to find a governor rather than a Senator to balance the ticket. I still think the most likely Dem ticket at this point is Clinton/Warner (I have no idea what will happen on my side of the fence, though).

I approve of Dodd's surname, but since he hasn't made it easy for anyone to find out where he stands...Who can tell? He voted against Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, so that tells me all I need to know about him: this man can't be President. Still, if he lays into Joe Biden during the debates, so much the better.

Chris Dodd outta do himself a favor and his bank account a bigger favor, don't even think about it, dude...he's not even gonna be considered in the Veep short list. No name, no state, whipping boy to Lieberman.

Mock me now but I'll still let you tell me "you were right" come the day after the Dems convention when no matter who they choose will still lose to Senator McCain by a HUGE margin.

Evan Byah? His dead dad is still more popular in Indiana than he is. Hillary? Yeah, okay. Kerry, Gore or Edwards?...couldn't beat GWB with second chances, how are they gonna beat McCain??? Feingold? Sorry, a Great Lakes state Jewish guy whose wife divorced him a year ago, no.

Wesley Clark, some say? If MacArthur couldn't muster anything up politically, what makes anyone think a .0009% of MacArthur's talent is gonna be able too?

Let's all just chalk this one up to what it is...Senator John McCain will be elected the 44th President of the United States of America come November 2008.

What say you?