Certainly the former South Dakota senator is considering a 2008 run for president, as AP reports:
Daschle criticized Bush for launching the war in Iraq, secret domestic wiretapping and a national debt that he argued will be passed on to future generations. He complained that the administration is too cozy with oil companies and has ignored the threat of global warming.
No longer constrained by the politics of his heavily Republican state, the former South Dakota senator has been free to rail against the administration since he lost his Senate seat to Republican John Thune in 2004.
Daschle denied that he has moved to the left since leaving office, arguing that his former constituents would agree with him. "I think South Dakotans are far more aware of many of the problems created by this administration than they were two years ago," he said.
The former Senate Minority leader spoke to a crowd of more than 100 Democrats, many state legislators and city officials, and received several standing ovations, hoots and hollers.
As a private citizen, Candidate Daschle won't be able to bully the National Park Service into letting him have access to the top of Mount Rushmore for a political fundraiser, as he did in 2001.
On the flipside, I'm sure his airline-lobbyist wife will come up with a few unique ploys to work around the system.
Related: Feingold will run in 2008
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