Richardson made a major screw up on MSNBC.

[Renew Deal]

He said that Kerry was a major part of the POA MOW issue.

That's POW/MIA issue dumbass. He was just disqualified from the VP race.

[revcarol]

1. He was never in it.

He's refused, and the anti-NAFTA people would crucify him.

[Dookus]

3. like they crucified Kerry?

bring.... it.... on....

[Dookus]

2. lol...

that hardly disqualifies him. If misspeaking disqualified ME from everything, I wouldn't be allowed to leave the house.

It's a minor verbal fart.

[welshTerrier2]

4. well, it is MSNBC ...

so what difference does it make ...

I heard Tweety end his interview with Bob Graham tonight by referring to him as Bob Kerrey ...

[berry]

6. Off topic, but Peter Jennings called Martha Radditz (spelling?)

Martha Stewart tonight on the evening news, apologized and went right on.

Oh, and lots of people have slipped up on Howard and John Dean.

Easy enough to misspeak. But I wonder if Richardson has done his homework on that issue--or just lazily accepted someone else's opinion on this (as I think probable). That was the kind of misspeaking that bespeaks sloppy thinking (at best).

[Warpy]

5. Good, he's a DINO

He campaigned on dropping the state sales tax on food in New Mexico. What did he DO? Dropped income tax rates on the rich, who already had so many loopholes that NM was smack in the middle of the tax continuum when the final rate they actually paid was tallied.

This year he made a big show of ending that sales tax on food, but made a bigger show of calling it "revenue neutral" because he hiked the sales tax on everything else to compensate for it. The tax cut to fat cats was NOT revenue neutral, and he found he had to dip into the primcipal of the state's emergency fund to compensate for it.

Give a break to poor and working folks, and you have to stick it to them elsewhere. Give a break to fat cats, and pretend like it generated something besides a shortfall.

That's Richardson.