Back in the day, we used to blog a bit about Bill Richardson. He was one of more favorite ‘rats. In those heady days, his campaign used to link us a bit. I don’t know if Richardson ever read the blog, and I doubt it. Now it seems clear that Richardson should have been reading us. Shouldn’t everyone? I blogged yesterday that a Mrs. Clinton can judged by the company she keeps [1]. Zachary A. Goldfarb, Washington Post [2]:
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said today that the people around Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton practice “gutter” politics and that they feel entitled to the presidency, a day after an informal adviser to her campaign compared Richardson to Judas for endorsing Sen. Barack Obama.
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“I am very loyal to the Clintons,” said Richardson, but he said he wanted something beyond “Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton.” “You know, what about the rest of us?” he asked.
You simply can not draw some magic line between a candidate and their campaign. They are one and the same. When a candidate’s campaign is in the gutter, the candidate is in the gutter. This ain’t rocket science. The Clintons practice gutter politics, because they are gutter trash.
Edit: Corrected attribution.