[Kackikat]

I am a Tarheel, and this is Bush Country. We have dem-liberals who are always trying to steal elections here, but we will not go with Edwards. If Kerry thinks Edwards will help him in NC, he got bad information....we are and were Bush/Cheney!!

[JRPerry]

I do hope that Kerry seriously believes that Edwards is going to carry the south for him - if so, he sadly mistaken.

People see that Edwards won the SC primary and they may think that this means he will do damage to Bush's efforts here in this state - but they are in for a rude awakening.

Edwards won the SC Democratic primary because of his ties here perhaps - and because the University of North Carolina sent a few thousand students down here to get out the vote for Edwards ... but that will not play into the general election outcome this November. SC people are not crazy about NC people in the first place ... and even worse about people that move to NC and set up businesses and residences there and then try to return and play on their SC roots. Edwards is a traitor to most of us - he has never done a good thing for SC. He has adopted the state of NC as his home state. To be honest I seriously doubt he will carry his own home state in the upcoming election, much less any of the other true remaining southern states.
Kerry just shot his wad with that one and it missed the mark. Remember, I called the DeMint landslide victory well in advance of the runoff with Beasley ... and I am now saying Edwards on the ticket will not help Kerry in the least. They will still lose all of the true southern states. Heck, they may even lose Georgia and unfortunately, because of Atlanta, Georgia politics are no longer truly southern .... but I can see Bush winning over there as well.

[Non-Sequitur]

I pick the most experienced person best able to take over the presidency if need be.

Could George Bush have said that about Dan Quayle in 1992? Kerry chose Edwards because he is seen as another, more attractive face for the Democrat ticket. A better communicator. He also chose him because the majority of the party leaders and rank-and-file wanted Edwards. Expereince didn't enter in to it.

[NJ_gent]

"And Senior Democratic South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings says,"

Ahh yes, the outgoing Senator whose own colleagues refer to as, "the Senator from Disney". I've nothing to add to the thread, I just have an intense dislike for Hollings, as he's been such a sock puppet for Hollywood and the music industry. It annoys me to no end when anyone in Congress, regardless of who they are, will submit a bill that's nearly word-for-word identical to the one a major contributor hands them. I'm shocked, to this day, that he lasted as long as he did in the Senate. I've been to South Carolina, and they are some of the nicest folks I've ever met. I can only wonder if maybe Hollings simply ran unopposed all those years.

[TexasNative2000]

It is a double-bad choice for Kerry; Edwards will not help him pick up any states in the South, and the lack of Gephardt on the ticket will dampen union turnout in the key battleground states.

[lstanle]

"According to the National Journal, "Kerry and Edwards aren't all that different, at least not when it comes to how they voted on key issues before the Senate last year. The results of the vote ratings show that Kerry was the most liberal senator in 2003, with a composite liberal score of 96.5. But Edwards wasn't far behind: He had a 2003 composite liberal score of 94.5, making him the fourth-most-liberal senator." (Richard E. Cohen, "How They Measured Up," National Journal, 2/28/04)

This should be enough to sink ths dim ticket. There are 100 senators in the US senate. Ano two of the four most liberal of that 100 make up the dim ticket. There should be a way to present this information in a simple, graphic way that would make it very, very obvious to anyone that this ticket is much too liberal for mainstream America.

[pogo101]

Foghorn Leghorn bttt.

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[Tealc]

Rubbish. Edwards lies and takes money for a living. He has plenty of experience. :)

[onyx]

BOOKMARKED.

The sourced quotes are GOLD.

[jwalsh07]

The only "experience" Edwards has is mining those grief stricken folks who had an excellent chance of lining the ghouls pockets.

For those with less than an excellent chance Sir Lancelot told them to pound sand.

[July 4th]

Apparently, many international BBC readers agree:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/3870443.stm

[dixie sass]

Great post. Great information.

[dixie sass]

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