Dude, RTFA. The last paragraph:

At the end of the night, given how long he’d known the result, Singh was resigned but gloomy. “There were nights I woke up in a sweat, worrying that I’d let you down,” he told a room of very young supporters and volunteers. (I don’t think anyone was over 33.) He begged them to stay involved then settled in to party. He would stay involved with the GOP, but he wasn’t sure yet if he’d run in two years. (The nomination would probably be his for the taking if he did.) “I sensed something was wrong with America at its core and culminated in a campaign for Congress,” Singh told supporters in an e-mail today, “but it won’t end there. No, I’m not seeking the VP nomination.”

The statement is an example of SM’s nonpartisan mockery, no doubt.

you and big russ both…

I know, I’ve been drinking and pouring out liquor all day.

this might be true, but i don’t think anybody who, by default, puts public officials off the record and then requests a by-your-leave before quoting anything they say, and of whom cheney’s office thinks that the best way to get their message out is to put cheney on his show, since “it’s our best format to control the message” – even after the iraq war – is hardly what i think as a paragon of great, or even, good, political reporting. he was a consummate insider and expert performer of the media-politics dance of washington.

he was a bit of a wonk about the political process, and i give him props for his enthusiasm on that count, though. that, and the fact that anybody who disliked chris mathews intensely couldn’t have been all bad.

so, who gets his spot? brian williams? probably not chris mathews, although that would be ironic. olbermann is probably perceived as too anti-establishment and snarky. maybe david gregory? russert is supposed to have liked him, but is he considered seasoned enough?

The great Tim Russert just passed away and I don’t want to threadjack but us desi’s no matter what side are views are, will miss him. This falls election will not be the same with out him.