>> A lot of gimme-gimme malingerers see trial lawyers as godlike figures.
And they’re infuriating. (the malingerers as well as the trial lawyers)
But, chin up, they’re a relatively small percentage of Americans. They have money, but not votes. And the rest of us despise them.
Edwards doesn’t really have a snowball’s chance.
Edwards’ best hope is to make people see him less as a trial lawyer and more as some kind of campaigner-without-office for the poor and oppressed. He just has to hope that nobody wonders where all that money came from.
The funny thing is, if he were willing to live a humble lifestyle, just for a little while, he could have all the power he craves. But he has to blow it by buying mega mansions and spending money on pedicures and thousand dollar haircuts.
And of course, he has to pay for the pedicures through the Center for Promise and Opportunity, literally stealing money from the poor, rather than take the money out of his own pocket...
I certainly expect him to waddle into the Rat convention with anywhere between 25 and 33 percent of the delegates that have been awarded by that point. He's had years (including his almost successful 2004 nomination race) to build a base of sympathizers, who cannot see that he is just a rich pretty boy.
He's the Sanjaya of the Rat Party!