Yawn, is there any more coffee?
Big deal, Edwards is a loser too, let's break out all the negative comments he made about Kerry during the primaries...a flop-flip and a flip-flop.
"historic announcment", says Fox...because why???
I tell ya, I can barely contain my excitement, oh yeah.
"Big deal, Edwards is a loser too, let's break out all the negative comments he made about Kerry during the primaries...a flop-flip and a flip-flop."
That's a good point. Does anyone know here how precedented this is? Meaning, how often a veep candidate was an opponent during that party's primary? I don't -think- it's happened in my lifetime. And as GRRRRR points out, it's got some definite disadvantages - plenty of criticisms between the two on the record. Imagine if in 2000, Bush had picked McCain as his veep! The Dems would've had a field-day trotting out and parsing every last bad word they'd ever said about each other. Of course, the two toilets, I mean John's, will be treated as if they were and have always been Vietnam vets from the same PT-boat... wait, no, scratch that too...
Qwinn
An eastern liberal war-protestor senator and a southern liberal lawyer senator. I'm so scared.
Well, actually, I am. But that's me. The Nameless One's first victory broke my heart. His second shattered whatever was left of faith in the American electorate. Now, as I see the polls stay tight between W and this appalling excuse for a human being, I have no faith whatever in voters.
Fight hard, W; we need you to win.
Dan
Isn't Edwards a one term Senator? Like the country is going to trust a trial lawyer as a VP. Well, the leftists will anyway.
Edwards makes the most sense for Kerry. As far as criticisms during the primaries, they don't mean much. George Bush Sr. was critical of Reagan's economic ideas (remember "voodo economics"), and was also Reagan's second choice behind Ford but it didn't matter in the end.
First time we've had a "gigolo" and an "ambulance chaser" as candidates for P&VP?
I haven't been able to read all the posts to see what answers have already been posted, but some news people had mentioned a few days ago that this would be the earliest a VP selection would have been announced. Usually such announcements are made a week before the conventions of either party; yet another sign that the party conventions should probably be extinct. Just as unimportant a possible historic bit might be that both are senators.
Looks as though little John finally got an adult haircut.