“I’m going to take a pass. It’s not the right fit for me, at least not right now. I still have a daughter at home, and this would have meant missing a lot of her activities…and in terms of the stuff I have to focus on for South Dakota right now, I just didn’t think I had the bandwidth to do it all.” (Rapid City Journal)
TRANSLATION:
It looks like we’re going to get killed in the Senate in 2008 and I don’t want to be associated with that. I have too bright a political future to waste it on a lost cause.
