Maybe He's Just Desperate For A D.C. Mailing Address

Tom Daschle considers bid for President... President of what? No, seriously...

Former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle is weighing the possibility of running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.

"I have received a lot of encouragement," Daschle said in an email today to the Argus Leader.

...Larry Sabato, a political expert at the University of Virginia, said Daschle was not in his latest rankings of likely Democratic candidates because he wasn't convinced Daschle would run.

"I wouldn’t call him the favorite, or even second or third. But it’s early," Sabato said.

That last quote is hysterical -- I'm wondering if Sabato avoided saying "or fourth or fifth or sixth" out of pity. Meanwhile, I'm wondering who is encouraging Daschle. Here are some suspects:

1. Republicans.
2. John Kerry, so there's no way he can finish last in the Democrat primaries.
3. Hillary Clinton, so she can point out one more Democrat that she's better than.
4. Al Sharpton, since he can argue that he's not the only who doesn't hold elected office and is running.
5. Dick Gephardt, so he can claim that he looked better than Daschle did as a Presidential candidate.