Sunday, November 12, 2006
The Wrong Russ decides to stay home in 2008
I think this is bad news for the GOP as a wacko liberal like Russ Feingold calls it a day on his 2008 presidential run.
Sen. Russ Feingold announced in an e-mail sent this morning to several hundred thousand supporters he is dropping plans for a possible presidential run in 2008.
"I believe I can best advance that progressive agenda as a senator with significant seniority in the new Senate serving on the Foreign Relations, Intelligence, Judiciary and Budget Committees,'' the Wisconsin Democrat stated in his letter.
An outspoken opponent of the Iraq war who voted against authorizing President Bush to invade, Feingold was the only senator to vote against the original USA Patriot Act because of his concern about its potential infringement on civil liberties.
"While I've certainly enjoyed the repeated comments or buttons saying, "Run Russ Run", or "Russ in '08", I often felt that if a piece of Wisconsin Swiss cheese had taken the same positions I've taken, it would have elicited the same standing ovations,'' he noted in the letter. "This is because the hunger for progressive change we feel is obviously not about me but about the desire for a genuinely different Democratic Party that is ready to begin to reverse the 25 years of growing extremism we have endured.''
Right. Let's reverse it to the extremism from the left which you represent.
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