Posted on 07/06/2004 4:33:22 AM PDT by djf
NBC breaking says for sure it's Edwards for veep
No need to keep speculating about others replacing him. There's no one who can match his abilities and gravitas, including (and especially) John Edwards. I can't wait to hear the Cheney/Edwards debate.
LOLOL
The unions is not going to like this one.. Botox Boy and Breck Girl..
The head of the US Chamber of Commerce has made a public vow - if Kerry picks Edwards they will work publicly and hard to defeat the Democrat ticket. Hah!
Wall Street Journal article:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1166110/posts
Odd... I have never seen a field plowed in this manner. Then again, I've never 'summered' on the Brittany Coast.
from today's WSJ:
Tom Donohue, head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has made a public vow: If John Edwards is chosen as John Kerry's running mate, the chamber will abandon its traditional stance of neutrality in the presidential race and work feverishly to defeat the Democratic ticket. "We'd get the best people and the greatest assets we can rally" to the cause, he says.
Other business leaders in Washington have been less public and less precise, but no less passionate. Reviewing the candidates in the Democratic primaries earlier this year, a Fortune 100 chief executive who is active in Washington told me that Mr. Edwards, the North Carolina senator, "is the one we fear the most" -- more than John Kerry, more than Dick Gephardt, more than Howard Dean.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1166110/posts
Anyone catch Dick Morris just on FNC? Something about how Morris wouldn't have picked Edwards because of what's going to come out about him, Edwards?
Okay, move your coffee someplace safe (away from your mouth), because I have a prediction to make...
The man who will benefit the most from this development is-- Ralph Nader. He's running an obstructionist campaign, so this news is like a champagne breakfast in bed.
Kerry is trying to buy himself some charisma. At the end of the day, John Kerry is still John Kerry and not even John Edwards can change that fact.
Cheney has high negatives because the Bush campaign is running the most inept incumbent's campaign since his father's in '92.
Years of unanswered lies have conditioned the minds of those unlike us who are not junkies and who do not follow politics closely. You simply cannot play defense and win. You cannot rely on the power of tv ads to carry the day against the media tide. There must be a coordinated, relentless campaign from inaugeration day to drive, drive, drive on offense.
Edwards is a much better public speaker, I'll grant him that. I'm more worried about this huckster in 2008. All he'll do in 2004 is make Kerry look boring in contrast.
Well doesn't Edwards the lawyer represent everything that Nader hates?
I listened to Morris. He was talking about tainted campaign contributions.
Botox Boy!!
LMAO!!!
So Kerry picks the guy he said was far too inexperienced to be president. Did he lie then, or is he playing politics over national interest? Could be both I guess.
Unfortunately, so will the RATs. Am I the only one here that has this sinking feeling that the Ketchup-Breck ticket will not take the $75 million in public financing for the general election now (remember, they would have to make it last 6 weeks longer than President Bush)?
Give the guy a break. It actually is Gephardt until tomorrow's NYPost comes out.
From that Wall Street Journal where the US Chamber of Commerce vows, for the first time, to get partisan and defeat a Kerry/Edwards ticket:
But Mr. Edwards is a trial lawyer. His campaign for the presidency was financed by trial lawyers. And there is nothing that makes America's CEOs see red these days like America's trial lawyers. "It's visceral," says one person who works with a group of chief executives. "You can feel it in a room." The nation's top executives view the plaintiff's bar as modern-day mobsters, shaking down corporations by bringing endless lawsuits that are too costly and too dangerous to litigate and that result in settlements costing billions to the corporate bottom line. The antipathy, while not new, has never been greater.
I don't think Cheney will make mincemeat out of Edwards, but he will certainly hold his own in debates if he is on the ticket in October. Edwards is a tough cookie and thinks well on his feet. He won't say anything stupid in a debate. Be prepared for Bush to counter with Giuliana or McCain as VP candidate. This election is looking too close right now and McCain would help Bush more than Cheney in November.
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