[Russell Scott]

Two words and Edwards is toast: TRIAL LAWYER!

[Russell Scott]

One of the longest paragraphs on the Web site is devoted to the apparently noteworthy fact that Edwards has visited every one of North Carolina's 100 counties

Chasing ambulances involves a lot of travel.

[Brian Allen]

<< Hillary Clinton's year is 2008. >>

For what?

Leavenworth, finally?

Prediction: Every one of: Soddom Hisson; Gerhardt Schroeder and Kim Ll-jung will be president of the US before the loathesome and fearsome Hitlery Rodman-KKli-toon gets within spitting distance of being even a post-primaries candidate for that office.

[BJungNan]

He is a trial lawyer. What do you bet by the time he gets on CNN he will be called by the new, politically correct title, consumer attorney?

[johnny7]

I see Kerry. Edwards is a young Barney Fife.

Throw in Hillary as VP and it's a good ticket for the morons.

The dems never sleep... they're like rust.

[gop_gene]

Senator from Mayberry shouldn't alarm Dubya

It's premature to be alarmed, but at the same time it's risky to dismiss Edwards. He has near-zero experience for such a hefty job, but I don't exactly have a huge amount of faith that the electorate would be distressed about that. He's a trial lawyer, which is bad, a group that most people abhor, but with his looks and harmless demeanor, it'll be a challenge to portray him as just another predator in a predatory profession. You can bet the little girl in the swimming pool incident will be brought up again and again. He's a political lightweight to be sure, but as we've seen with his position on judiciary, he can play hardball. He might implode later on, but in my view he's the only candidate who's the most threatening at this point--sure he might lose his own state where people know him best and don't like what they see, but some of the other southern states won't have that 'priviledge' and might go for him.

[azhenfud]

"But unlike Robin Hood, Edwards kept a good share of the loot, making him a multimillionaire."

Ah! Just another boy from Robbin's Hood robbing hoods....

[leadpenny]

Before this Mayberry analogy goes too far and the Left starts portraying Edwards in the character of Andy Taylor, we need to remind them that there was also Goober, Gomer, Ernest T. Bass, Floyd the Barber, Barney Fife, and the drunk who locked himself in a cell with an explosive goat.

[WaterDragon]

So Kerry fancies himself some sort of Robin Hood. So did Stalin, who took the name "Koba" early in his career. Korba was the fictional Robin Hood of Russia.

That is what gave Martin Amis the title of his book about Stalin..."Koba the Dread."

[Cottonbay]

some funny quotes for NC Edwards list....

[Feckless]

"A trial lawyer who first ran for office in 1998, he has no political chops to speak of, no executive record beyond the law-firm level and no important legislative accomplishments. In short, he is pretty close to a cipher."

Yeah, and Bill Clinton was a failed crooked Gov and rapist from a third world state with more baggage than Amtrak will accept but the Lamestream Media made him out to be another JFK. Unfortunately, he was.

[buffyt]

Excellent thread on John Edwards at

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/816555/posts

titled:
WHO IS JOHN EDWARDS?

[buffyt]

And Another Excellent thread on John Edwards at

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/816499/posts

titled:
WHO IS JOHN EDWARDS?

I am wondering, what are the possibilities of E. Dole and H. Rodham running against each other in 2004 or 2008?

[Constitution Day]

Edwards ping #4 (of 5)!

[chimera]

Bush may fear Edwards as a wild card, but Clinton knows it's unlikely that he, or any Democrat, can beat an incumbent wartime President.

My fear is that Edwards, or any Democrat, will beat GWB if the economy is still in the tank come Q2 2004. Wartime or not, integrity, service, whatever, the election of '92 showed that the sheeple are willing to kick anyone out if they think their material wealth is poorer because the President (whoever it is) "doesn't care" about them.

It should be obvious to everyone on FR that this is exactly what Edwards and the Rats will attempt to do. They learned from '92 that pocketbook issues always carry the day. Any grousing about trial-lawyer ambulance-chaser Edwards will be drowned out by the Rats and media's drumbeat about a detached, uncaring President Bush (so they will say) "letting" the economy stay in the dumper will he pursues foreign adventures. Its crap, I know, but nobody ever went broke betting against the stupidity of the average voter nowadays.

[Howlin]

[solo gringo]

IMHO When Edwards speaks like he is a flake.Most democrats are but Edwards sounds more like one than most.

[TC Rider]

Connecting Edwards to Mayberry, the Shangri-La of the South, is an insult and an affront to all that North Carolinians hold dear.

Andy and Barney would have run a trial lawyer like Edwards out of town on a rail so fast, his head would spin.

[Rebelbase]

John Edwards would have been branded a shyster/hustler and run out of Mayberry on a rail.

It is insulting to conservative Tar Heels that Edwards and Mayberry appear in the same sentance.

[HamiltonJay]

Edwards is IMHO not a threat, not suggesting he be written off... after all this is the same party that put a rapist in the White House.... But just watching the man on TV, he comes across as sort of a bizarre mix of Gomer Pyle and Sally Fields....

Shazamm... You Like me, you really like me... Granted its not likely that a real strong canidate would risk damaging his/her career with an 04 run, an almost certained defeat. But this guy is not the next generation.