It's Edwards

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[djf]

NBC breaking says for sure it's Edwards for veep

[nathanbedford]

Well, Kerry fooled me too, I thought he would go for Gebhardt as I would have in his place.

I am delighted with the pick because I do not think he brings much to the ticket. However, Kerry might be privy to some polls which reveal data we are unaware of like Edwards sex appeal with Frauen. I think he is more likely to gaff than Gebhardt and he might just over reach to compensate for his obvious lack of gravitas when confronted with Cheney.

But on the whole, I do not see the deck as having been shuffled much and certainly not stacked.

[MadIvan]

Their new logo:

Looks like a bloody department store logo to me.

Regards, Ivan

[Graymatter]

>>Time is running out...more than half the people have already passed judgment against Bush and it will be very difficult indeed to change them back especially with the media, not Bush, setting the agenda and beating him up every night...

I agree completely. It's not pessimism. The thing is obvious. If the President doesn't start fighting back he will lose a most winnable election.

People here seem to think there is a lot of hidden support for George Bush, invisible to the uninitiated. I think they're fooling themselves. The Bush campaign doesn't respond to media attacks and bias, and silence is a guilty plea in the court of public opinion.

[jq2]

The Lawsuit Industry’s “Favorite Son”
Epitomizing Trial Lawyers, Inc.’s drive for political influence is the career of U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-NC), a former personal-injury lawyer. Campaigning for the Senate in 1998, Edwards received more than half his total outside contributions from his friends in the lawsuit in-dustry.[182] Edwards has in turn enthusiastically supported key provisions backed by Trial Lawyers, Inc., including helping to defeat proposed limi-tations on personal-injury lawsuits in the event of a terrorist attack and seeking to make it easier to sue health maintenance organizations.[183]

Although Edwards’s 2004 presidential run seems thus far to be floundering, his campaign certainly opened eyes to the political power of Trial Lawyers, Inc.: by the end of the first quarter of 2003, Edwards topped all 2004 Democratic presidential hopefuls in fund-raising—with almost two-thirds of the $7.4 million he had raised coming from trial lawyers, their families, and their staffs.[184] As noted by the Wall Street Journal, “even political professionals seem[ed] stunned by the degree to which his candidacy ha[d] become a wholly owned financial subsidiary of the national tort bar.”[185]

http://www.triallawyersinc.com/html/part10.html

[P.O.E.]

There's nothing I'd love to see better than a Cheney/Edwards debate. Besides making the experience and 'gravitas' gap apparent, Cheney'd probably rip Edwards a new one.

[Eastbound]

AU-H2O. A good man.

Bush personifying our old values, Yes. Makes the target easier to hit, but there'll be ten to take his place if they bring him down.

[nathanbedford]

Welcome aboard, did you bring your kevlar vest? I have an extra tin foil hat.

[towncar1]

War Room of the John-John Campaign

[jveritas]

There is no value addressing my remarks to you anymore. We had few exchanges in different posts earlier this year and you still the same negative guy who I am sure would like to see President Bush defeated. It is good to let people on FR know who you really are. Again come November, you will be greatly disappointed because President Bush will win and wins big.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

If they win, that's where the country will go "to the crapper" x 2!

:o)

(Boy.. that's sure a grim thought)

[Eastbound]

"But don't worry Bush will announce the new head of the CIA and that will refocus the media."

A win-win either way.

[steveegg]

I could say something about the fact that both seats are down, but that would be beneath me :-)

[nathanbedford]

There is no value addressing my remarks to you anymore. We had few exchanges in different posts earlier this year and you still the same negative guy...

So instead you will post furtively about me.

jveritas, profile in courage.

[Eastbound]

LOL! Photoshop Snake-eyes and Box Cars on the seats and you'll have a double crapper.

[Captain Beyond]

Personally I wished he had picked Hillary for VP so when they went down in a flaming monumental landslide it would put to rest once and for all that Hillary is some kind of a mutated political superhuman that can't be beat. I believe Cheney would have ripped her a new one in a debate.

I can't wait to see Cheney slap pretty boy around.

[Palladin]

Way to go, Dems:

SpongeBob and Squidwards in 2004!

[91B]

Just out of curiousity Dales, do you think that this will (temporarily) push NC into the Kerry column. The last poll you posted for NC (my state BTW) showed a 47-42 Bush advantage. I wouldn't be surprised if Kerry went up in NC in the next big poll, but only by a point or two-within the MOE. In any event I doubt that Kerry takes NC when all is said and done, but I am interested in any thoughts you mught have.

[Graymatter]

Swell. I need the kevlar vest and you can spare some tin foil origami.
;)

[jveritas]

I posted the truth about you. I think you and all the third party losers, who bash President Bush all the time and want him to lose, should be banned from Free Republic. Fortunately for you and the third party Bush-bashing losers, I cannot make such a decision.

President Bush will win in November. America is not going to elect the most liberal, flip flopers, hypocrite, boring junior Senator from Massachusetts.

[tortoise]

It must suck to share the name of a guy repeatedly declared to be the "Biggest Douche in the Universe" according to South Park. Sure, the name refers to the Crossing Over guy, but coincidence? I think not. I'm sure there is some tasty material there that could be used for entertainment.

John Edwards: The Biggest Douche In The Universe