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Sen. John Edwards Blamed for Drawing Out of Kerry Concession Talks
Wonkette ^ | 11/04/04 | Ana Cox

Posted on 11/03/2004 9:34:40 AM PST by gopwinsin04

Edwards sure doesnt like being seen in the reaverview mirror..

'What took Kerry so long,' all the pundits have been asking.

Well, we hear for all of his Lurch like slugishness, the real stick in the mud was John Edwards, who didn't want to concede.

Presumably, he sees his politcal future now shrinking into the blinding glare of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's pantsuits..

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: ambulancechaser; edwards; kerry; kerryconcession; obstructionism; rats; slickeddie; thunderthighs
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To: Maceman

"he sees his politcal future now shrinking into the blinding glare of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's pantsuits.. "

"I'll overlook the mixed metaphor and just agree with the sentiment."

Well, ya gotta admit, that WOULD cause shrinkage!


21 posted on 11/03/2004 9:42:27 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: gopwinsin04

Scary, actually. Kind of a hint at how Lurch would have dealt with REAL crises as President. Hesitation. Waffling. Doing what's best for HIM. We were spared more grieve that we can even imagine right now.


22 posted on 11/03/2004 9:42:37 AM PST by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
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To: gopwinsin04

Sort of reinforces my idea that Edwards speaking to the crowd last night was on his own initiative. I thought maybe because kerry was in decompression. Probably has more to do with Edwards being an opportunist.


23 posted on 11/03/2004 9:42:38 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights (GIVE PRESIDENT BUSH HIS MANDATE--VOTE!!)
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To: gopwinsin04

Once an ambulance chasing bastard, always an ambulance chasing bastard...(my apologies to bastards everywhere!!!)


24 posted on 11/03/2004 9:43:05 AM PST by wireman
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To: swatter
What's wrong with analyzing all the numbers till noon today?

"14,125, 14,126, 14,127..."

"Hey, John, let's not concede yet"

"Jeez, Breck Boy! 1, 2, 3, 4,,,"

25 posted on 11/03/2004 9:43:13 AM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: gopwinsin04

Please ping me if you post anything!


26 posted on 11/03/2004 9:44:09 AM PST by sarasota
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To: gopwinsin04
Edwards has no where to go except back to North Carolina who didn't want him anyway....paraphrasing Jonah Goldberg all over NRO's Corner today:

John Edwards...sucks to be you.

27 posted on 11/03/2004 9:44:59 AM PST by Wyatt's Torch
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To: RightField

I was still thinking Lurch was going to withdraw his concession talks until Bush gave him a deadline..


28 posted on 11/03/2004 9:45:31 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

Ah BS, Has Kerry EVER admitted anything?

Another deflection of critcism by the Kerry camp.
He's the Presidential Candidate, HE makes the decision.



Unless he needed a Life line and Called Chirac for imput.


29 posted on 11/03/2004 9:46:04 AM PST by Area51 (Diapers and Politicians need to be changed-For the same reason)
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To: Larry Lucido
Well, ya gotta admit, that WOULD cause shrinkage!

Yes, but even Hillary's pantsuits do not emit light.

30 posted on 11/03/2004 9:46:13 AM PST by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: gopwinsin04

That just confirms that if you keep the trial lawyers away, the issues can be much more quickly resolved.


31 posted on 11/03/2004 9:46:55 AM PST by Real Cynic No More ( Kerry <i>was</i> the Hanoi candidate - now proven!)
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To: Pukin Dog
And with his wife there is just so much to enjoy. I have heard, and read, her comments for many months now, and through all of this I never quite got a true sense of who she really was. However, now that I have actually seen her speak (on television), it is apparent to me that she is a very well rounded person. She just has such an enormous stage presence
32 posted on 11/03/2004 9:46:59 AM PST by AuburnMan
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To: PrtzlLogic

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Yeah, Edwards has nothing left but to write some hokey book with a title like "What I Learned During My Vast Political Career" -- and the talk-show circuit."

Maybe he can get a Sunday morning talk show that will allow him to bash conservatives.


33 posted on 11/03/2004 9:47:23 AM PST by CriticalJ
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To: Wyatt's Torch; All

Can't you just picture Kerry smacking Silky Pony in the head!


34 posted on 11/03/2004 9:47:44 AM PST by newbie_doobie_doo (What's a tagline?)
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To: gopwinsin04
Kerry still has some political viability. He will be the presumptive nominee in 2008, and much bloviation on FR to the contrary, will easily dispatch Hillary! in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Edwards, however, is on a one-way train to electoral oblivion. His home state will not have him back and there is no place for him in Washington. He won't even be able to go back to the courtroom, because every jury will have at least a few 'Pubbies with long memories...

Edwards might as well buy and island and retire...

35 posted on 11/03/2004 9:48:27 AM PST by gridlock (FOUR MORE YEARS!!!! FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!)
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To: RightField
........sigh.....

grieve=grief

just too excited to proofread here

36 posted on 11/03/2004 9:49:51 AM PST by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
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To: gopwinsin04

Conceding the next day is hardly "drawing it out".

Upon my leaving for work this morning both were still under 270 EVs, and yet Kerry called Bush before lunch. That's pretty darn prompt.

(Funny, DU types discounted Kerry's flip-flops, yet are now stunned that he's not following thru on his vow to "fight for every vote"...they figured it out a bit late, eh...)


37 posted on 11/03/2004 9:50:14 AM PST by ctdonath2
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To: gopwinsin04
You know this would have been happening ad infinitum had sKerry been elected - someone else would have been calling the shots because he is incapable of making a decision on anything.
38 posted on 11/03/2004 9:50:27 AM PST by Heartland Mom (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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To: gridlock
Hey, he could send out the little woman to do some "real work." I hear she's an attorney, too.

Oh wait, there is no little woman in the life.

39 posted on 11/03/2004 9:51:15 AM PST by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
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To: Chevy34
Did you see him crying last night in front of the crowd? LOL

Ya know, I actually thought we saw something cold, sinister, Machiavellian... totally unlike the 'gracious' silky pony lightweight we'd been led to believe.

It creeped me out... he looked like that grown-up Damien who takes over the White House in The Omen.

40 posted on 11/03/2004 9:51:32 AM PST by Jhensy
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