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Personally, while I'm not overconfident for the GOP, I don't think that John Edwards has got what it takes. He's radically liberal on issues like abortion (he even opposes the partial birth abortion ban) and homosexuality, while at the same time claiming to be "moderate". Recent surveys that I've heard of have suggested that he's not even all that popular in his native NC. Don't forget what happened to Max Cleland who had pretty much the same record as Edwards. Being the slick, pretty boy won't buy him the presidency -- people want substance.

By the way, any more word on Bob Graham's potential candidacy?

Being the slick, pretty boy won't buy him the presidency -- people want substance.

Not too be too much of a New Year curmudgeon, but you know we said this about Clinton back in '92. Remember that Bush I looked "unbeatable" early on, then the sheeple flocked (42% of them - enough to win a three-way) to the scumbag and we had to deal with eight long, weary years of nothing but lies and deceit and attacks on the Constitution that we still have yet to recover from.

All it will take for Bush II to go down is another year or 18 months of the economy in the tank, and the pressitutues beating the drums (like they did in '92) about how this President Bush, like his father, "doesn't care" about domestic issues, or "the little guy", meanwhile flashing images of the "youthful and charismatic Senator from NC" and his telegenic family, about how he's a "trial lawyer with a heart" who "cares about and fights for the little guy", and is a "moderate Democrat from a Southern state". The Rats are masters of manipulation, and "care" and "caring" have become potent political buzzwords, eliciting a flood of emotions from the sucker moms and various assorted intellectually vapid sheeple, generally sympathetic to the Rats.

I really, truly hope that I am wrong, but my fear is that '04 is shaping up as a '92 replay, deju vu all over again, especially if a wacko third party goofball jumps in and siphons off enough support from the 'Pub candidate to drop him below 45% or so. God help us if we get stuck with President Edwards for eight years. Goodbye doctors, manufacturers, inventors, and anyone who produces or does anything useful, and get ready for Lawyer Nation and its faithful partner, Government Regulator.

"Being the slick, pretty boy won't buy him the presidency -- people want substance."

People want substances to abuse - hey, Clinton was elected having no substance, that was abuse.

Beware of Blinkey Edwards and the Democratic recounters - one vote is more than enough for him to win....