Someone brought this Des Moines Register piece to my attention. It seems Joe Biden isn’t the only longshot on the Democratic side who thinks he can win.
Of course, Chris Dodd’s pinning his hopes on voters who look at prudence and see it as "timidity:"
Published October 2, 2007
Yepsen: 1st-tier Dems’ timidity on Iraq may create opening
David Yepsen
Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd is the longest of long-shot candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. But he doesn’t seem too agitated about that.
He’s an experienced politician. He knows how the caucus game often breaks late. Because of his 33 years of experience in Congress, he also knows something about U.S. foreign policy and the war in Iraq.
He does get agitated about that, particularly when the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination appear to be in no big hurry to get out. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama all declined in last week’s debate to say they’d have U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of their first term – in 2013.
"I was stunned, literally stunned" to hear them say that, Dodd said in an interview for last weekend’s Iowa Press program on Iowa Public Television. "It was breathtaking to me that the so-called three leading candidates would not make that commitment. That’s six years from today."…
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I might have to take a look at Senator Dodd. He sounds like a pragmatist.
It’s too bad the media is blinded by celebrity and hype right now. But it’s only a matter of time before people, especially in Iowa, recognize Hillary’s baggage, Barack’s lack of substance, Johnny-come-lately’s drastic change from 04, and Richardson’s long resume of goofs and gaffes. The early voting states vote for the most qualified and electable candidate, and historically the preliminary front-runner does not win the caucus/primaries. That leaves only Dodd and Biden for serious consideration.
And if it is getting out of Iraq that you want, only Chris has given us his word that we can have all US troops out before 2013.
If it was early polls, or 3rd quarter finance reports that won caucuses, John Kerry certainly would not have won in 2004.