Wow. A reader says–again, this isn’t based on a transcript, when I get one, I will post–

It was pretty funny. [Richardson] not only couldn’t talk about it, but when Imus said that these claims were “crazy talk,” Richardson chuckled and said “What do you expect, Don? It’s election season.” And Imus went to a commercial with the line, “well it doesn’t get any better than that.”

I don’t want to get overly optimistic–and I am not, believe me–but I think that is very telling. Richardson doesn’t want to blow all his political capital on this guy who he doesn’t particularly like and probably won’t win, I think is his calculation.