Errors of Enchantment

The Club for Growth is a free market political action group based in Washington, DC that attempts to elect or defeat candidates based strictly on their free market credentials -- taxes, spending, trade, regulation, school choice, and tort reform to name a few. The group has done write-ups for most of the presidential candidates at this point and recently released their white paper on the Democratic candidates including Bill Richardson.

Clearly, while the Club views Richardson in a clear-eyed manner with all of his very real flaws, when conservatives look at Richardson in the context of a Democratic primary with Clinton, Obama, and Edwards, he doesn't look quite as bad.