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To: GuavaCheesePuff

John Edwards was a likeable an old school Blue Dog southern Democrat.

Democrats won’t nominate someone that moderate today.

The party’s center of gravity is now with its radical left base.


4 posted on 11/03/2019 5:43:44 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Yes, yes, he was.

I was thinking this morning, if he did not behave irresponsibly, he would have been Obama’s VP in 2008.

Biden would have been SecofState, Hillary defense secretary.

A VP Edwards would have been younger than Biden and probably give Trump a competitive election.

Edwards would have done well in the South.

A Edwards-type candidate cannot win today.


8 posted on 11/03/2019 5:45:38 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: goldstategop
When he was running in 2004 I saw a focus group panel on one of the cable news channels. The panelists were all Democrats, and most of them said Edwards was the one Democrat they’d NEVER vote for even if he was the nominee.

When they were asked why, they said he just came across as a slimy phony and a used car salesman.

20 posted on 11/03/2019 5:50:32 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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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: 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: goldstategop

No John Edwards was a big phony who was a slick personal injury lawyer with a nice hairdo like Gavin Newsome. He had no principles and was another womanizer in the vein of Bill Clinton.


42 posted on 11/03/2019 8:27:23 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: goldstategop

He wasn’t a moderate. He was hard-left. The party wouldn’t tolerate anyone who wasn’t a far-leftist in 2004. I remember a headline showing Lurch-Breck Girl ticket was “to the left of Ted Kennedy.”


50 posted on 11/04/2019 4:56:12 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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