New Republic Resurrects Question of Why Mark Warner Didn’t Run for President |
| Published: May 21, 2008, 4:49 pm |
| Tags: 2008 elections, marky mark, scandal, virginia politics |
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Josh Patashnik at The New Republic unwittingly resurrects the ultimately haunting question of why Mark Warner really didn’t run for president: Indeed, what’s become clear at the end of this primary season is that neither Democratic candidate’s appeal is as wide as Democrats would prefer. . . . One wonders, in retrospect, if there were some candidate who could have bridged this divide and appealed strongly to both groups. Somebody like Mark Warner, perhaps, whom the Obama coalition might have embraced as an entrepreneurial, somewhat postpartisan, reformist fresh face, and whom the Clinton coalition might have embraced as a culturally moderate, economically savvy governor of a border state. Yes, why did Marky Mark go to all the trouble of traveling around the country, raising his profile, garnering chits, opening a presidential exploratory committee with offices in Iowa and New Hampshire, then suddenly pull the plug so as to be able to “spend more time with the [ Full article ] |
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