Comments on: A New Chief of Staff

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:39:50 +0000

Well, if Howard Dean is willing to put big bucks into getting Tim Kaine elected for the one-term governership of Virginia, the sky truly is the limit!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:27:51 +0000

Well, if that would drive the Democrats to spend obscene amounts of time and money on Massachusetts of all places, it might not be the worst move for the Republicans to make.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:34:24 +0000

I’m not too sure about that. If Andy Card jumped into the governor’s race right now (screwing up a potentially winning candidacy of Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey), I have this strange vision of John Kerry and Ted Kennedy biovating all over The Bay State, blaming Andy Card for every misfire of the Bush administration. I see Kos and the nutroots funneling crazy amounts of money behind whoever the democrats pick. I see the race becoming Card=Bush, and there’s no way anyone could overcome that in Massachusetts.

I don’t live in Massachusetts, and I don’t have some sort of great knowledge of Massachusetts politics, but that seems like the way it would go.

By: peter

peter — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:26:44 +0000

I was thinking more of the governor’s race than the Senate race –

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:40:55 +0000

You think so Peter? Colin Powell versus Ted Kennedy this November. Who do you think wins?

By: Ryan Bonneville

Ryan Bonneville — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:23:44 +0000

I’m with Hinderaker: yawn. Who cares about the chief of staff? Real life isn’t the West Wing. I want to see the (fantastically less important, in terms of actual power) Vice President switcherooed.

By: peter

peter — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:55:27 +0000

Colin Powell could win a statewide election in Massachusetts.

Also, Senator Edward Brooke, who was both black and Republican, was a Senator from Massachusetts for many years.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:08:14 +0000

I read a article AOL had on this earlier today. It speculated that Card might run for Governor or Senator in Massachusetts. Yeah, I’m sure that would go over real well. Could any ex-Bush official run in Massachusetts these days for anything and have a prayer of winning?

By: All Things Beautiful

All Things Beautiful — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:40:29 +0000

The Card Shuffle

The White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card resigns today. I guess the shuffling of the deck and the dropping of the Card as Ed Morrissey puts it, was inevitable.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:40:45 +0000

Oh, they're all over the Daily Kos and Firedoglake posts in the comments - example here...