Andy Card's appetite for punishment

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On the lighter side, this was just posted at Salon: http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/10/card/index.html

Andy Card's appetite for punishment

...This guy, he lives to take one for the team. Which is, perhaps, why he’s considering a run for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's open Senate seat. Card was, decades ago, a Massachusetts state legislator and a candidate for governor. Now that there’s an open seat in the state for the first time in forever, he may take a stab at it. “I would very much like to run,” he said recently.

Card would bring one strength to the table -- he can raise a lot of money thanks to his connections in Washington. But frankly, it’s hard to imagine a supposedly viable, mainstream candidate as downright unelectable as Card would be in this race. He’d be seeking federal, rather than state office, so he’d have to run on his record and stances on national, partisan issues, rather than his technocratic abilities. (Because his record there is excellent.) And who would be easier to link the unpopularity and excesses of the Bush administration -- especially the pre-2006, totally unreconstructed Bush administration -- than the man who was literally in charge of it?...

...this would all be happening, in case you’ve forgotten, in the most Democratic state in the country, in the long shadow of one of the most iconic liberals of the past 50 years. Imagine if Rahm Emanuel decided to run for Sarah Palin’s old job and you get close to grasping the odds of Card's victory.