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Could Someone Like John Edwards Have Saved the Democrats?
Real Clear Politics ^ | January 2017 | David Byler

Posted on 11/03/2019 5:38:46 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff

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To: Texas Eagle

The guy who said the KKK member was his mentor??


21 posted on 11/03/2019 5:51:52 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

Apparently that’s the guy.


22 posted on 11/03/2019 5:53:13 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would be have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

John Edwards got what he deserved—a political execution.

Had it not been for the National Enquirer, the fake news media would have covered up Edwards’ sleazy adulterous ways.


23 posted on 11/03/2019 5:54:03 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ( "Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves”)
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To: Alberta's Child

Edwards is a slick lawyer, but he had a middle class American dream-type message that could have appealed to people.

Who else are the Democrats going to bring back? Hillary is finished. Michelle does not want to run. John Kerry is damaged goods.

Wesley Clark has no message other than being a general, it’s not 2004 anymore.


24 posted on 11/03/2019 5:54:56 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: Alberta's Child

His daddy worked in a meel!


25 posted on 11/03/2019 5:55:47 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Texas Eagle

Yes, the same one who made millions as an ambulance-chasing, dead baby-channeling charlatan. A slimeball with Bill Clinton’s morals, better hair, and less charm. That someone thinks Edwards could have “saved” the Democrats is one heck of an indictment on the current crop.


26 posted on 11/03/2019 5:56:42 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Looks like the DEMS have gone through their ‘VARSITY’ players and are bringing out the JVs.


27 posted on 11/03/2019 6:00:10 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Wesley Clark is what Beto would have been as a military officer.


28 posted on 11/03/2019 6:02:35 PM PST by lee martell
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To: goldstategop

Mitt Romney. Never Trumpers like him, Swamp likes him. Can get Christian vote to break from Trump. Just like Biden but without dementia. Its Mitt, the biparision candidate.ERS,


29 posted on 11/03/2019 6:03:23 PM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Cheated on his wive? No someone got that already...
Spoke to dead babies? Someone got that too...

AHA!

The greiving father who someone "I never told people this before" about his dead son, twice, to the same person? That John Edwards?

30 posted on 11/03/2019 6:05:06 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Edwards is a slick lawyer, but he had a middle class American dream-type message that could have appealed to people.

But it didn’t. He went from VP candidate in 2004 to getting less than 3% support among Democratic delegates in the 2008 primaries.

31 posted on 11/03/2019 6:06:23 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: goldstategop
Democrats won’t nominate someone that moderate today.

If the Democrats were smart, they'd have rallied behind John Hickenlooper. Instead, they quickly tossed him to the curb.

President Trump has said it over and over again, "Even if you don't like me, you're still going to have to vote for me!" And he's right. This is how he wins again; as he did in 2016, by earning the votes of the people who love him and those voters who can't stand the Democratic Party candidate.

32 posted on 11/03/2019 6:10:59 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Alberta's Child

The Democrats chased out all the moderate white men in the party.

Evan Bayh, Edwards, Clark, Phil Bredesen are too moderate for Democrats.

The leftwing base has been accelerated.

They are left with two old white men, a old white lady and a young gay man, and a black woman from San Francisco.

That is what the Democrats have.


33 posted on 11/03/2019 6:13:16 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

No.


34 posted on 11/03/2019 6:15:00 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

You must mean the psychic.

Seriously, the Clintons ruined American politics, starting with Slick back in ‘92.


35 posted on 11/03/2019 6:17:12 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

“Could Someone Like John Edwards Have Saved the Democrats?”

Biden should impregnate a campaign worker?


36 posted on 11/03/2019 6:19:24 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Evan Bayh is as swampish as they come. Good on the IN voters for keeping him out of the Senate.


37 posted on 11/03/2019 6:20:39 PM PST by Ken H (And Epstein didn't kill himself.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

If the Dems need someone like Edwards to save them they are doomed forever


38 posted on 11/03/2019 6:24:39 PM PST by 12chachacha (Sucker??)
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To: Texas Eagle

“The guy who cheated on his wife while she was battling cancer???”

AND the woman he cheated with was a nutjob that had a love child with him and then broke up with him ...

SOOOOO, the author thinks a guy like that could have saved the Democrats: the insanity is strong in that one ...


39 posted on 11/03/2019 6:29:25 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Vermont Lt

Then Al Gore or Dick Gephardt should have ran on their own in ‘92. Lad Lee Atwater lived in ‘92, Clinton would have probably never gotten far in the nomination.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?18375-1/democratic-perspective-domestic-issues

https://www.c-span.org/video/?17847-1/democratic-leadership-council

Gore was actually more ethical than Bubba.

Speaking of Gore, I wonder if Gore will think of running in 2020.

A Gore-Gabbard ticket would be a tough ticket in my opinion.


40 posted on 11/03/2019 6:34:45 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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