There are times when a candidate for President should run for the nomination of a major party because of the issues that he or she brings to the race - issues that can't be separated from the candidate, and because of that, force a subject or issue into an election campaign, particularly the primary.
Because of that, I'd like to see the blogosphere discuss the value of a campaign in 2008 for the Democratic Presidential nomination by one Kathleen Blanco, Governor of Louisiana.
It's not that I see her as being a particularly good candidate, or a candidate that can win, or as a candidate that brings anything in particular to the campaign other than Louisiana, 2005 to date. There are a lot of issues relating to NOLA, Katrina, FEMA, state and federal responsibilities and coordination, land use planning, the disconnect between wealth and poor, etc., etc., that she could force into the primary debate in a way that most other candidates cannot. I think the Democrats need to have that debate, and that the Gulf Coast deserves that debate.
So why shouldn't Blanco run? Why would she bring to the primary?