I HAVEN'T HAD WYOMING ON MY MIND MUCH SINCE GETTING TO INDIA-- OR EVEN BEFORE THAT

You don't find much at DWT about Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal. That's because he's the worst kind of self-serving opportunist you'll find in politics, someone who can always be counted on to be looking out for his own career and never someone who pushes progressive-- or even Democratic Party-- values or principles. Last we covered him, he was in the midst of some kind of reactionary diatribe against Howard Dean. Yesterday he went one better, denouncing all the candidates running for president.

Freudenthal says none of the candidates--from either party-- has addressed important issues facing the West. "I frankly would reach beyond just my party, the Democrats, and say that my sincere hope is that I wouldn't have to vote for any of these people, on either side," Freudenthal boasted to the Associated Press. He acknowledges, perhaps with a sense of regret, that "in the end, somebody's going to be elected president." Let's just pray he doesn't get any ideas about a lunk-headed Wyoming governor who, for some inexplicable reason, calls himself a Democrat. One of Bush's strongest states-- in terms of support in 2000, 2004 and even in recent job-approval surveys-- Wyoming reelected Freudenthal last year with 70 percent of the vote.