[macintologist]

I just know it. I can sense the momentum in his campaign as Kerry receives attack after attack from the left and right. The same force that brought down Dean is bringing down Kerry and Edwards just doesn't seem attackable the same way Dean and Kerry are. Plus, doesn't everybody want to see an end to this damn Yale Skull'nbones dynasty in politics?

Edwards: positive campaign, good looking, can win southern votes, grew up poor and had to work hard (example of the American Dream™) and basically is just more likable than Bush. Interesting fact: he won a large portion of the Republican and Independent votes at the Wisconsin primary.

[BlackGriffen]

Originally posted by macintologist:
I just know it. I can sense the momentum in his campaign as Kerry receives attack after attack from the left and right. The same force that brought down Dean is bringing down Kerry and Edwards just doesn't seem attackable the same way Dean and Kerry are.

Bwa ha ha ha! Let me count the ways:

• Zero pro bono work in a long and very successful legal career.
• Co-sponsored the PATRIOT Act
• Voted for the war in Iraq
• Experience, experience, experience (not even a one term senator)

The middle two are less issues that make Bush better, but can be used to cut into the fervor of Edward's natural base (the left).

Don't get me wrong, Kerry has even more problems, but Eddy is far from perfect.

BlackGriffen

[Nonsuch]

Originally posted by macintologist:
I just know it. I can sense the momentum in his campaign as Kerry receives attack after attack from the left and right. The same force that brought down Dean is bringing down Kerry and Edwards just doesn't seem attackable the same way Dean and Kerry are.

Edwards isn't vulnerable to the "spineless New England Dukakis liberal" trope, which is the first trick the GOP attack dog tries to pull. That alone is throwing them for a loop. I'm sure they'll regroup and dredge (Drudge) up a sex scandal or two if the need arises.

[AKcrab]

Originally posted by BlackGriffen:

• Co-sponsored the PATRIOT Act

I didn't know that.

[vmarks]

Originally posted by macintologist:
Plus, doesn't everybody want to see an end to this damn Yale Skull'nbones dynasty in politics?

Do you know what Skull and Bones is? Bush 1 was. Bush 2 was. Theodore Roosevelt was also, IIRC. Quayle was DKE but not Skull and Bones. Nothing wrong with it, either.

Edwards: positive campaign, good looking, can win southern votes, grew up poor and had to work hard (example of the American Dream™) and basically is just more likable than Bush. Interesting fact: he won a large portion of the Republican and Independent votes at the Wisconsin primary.

Edwards, a congressman who told all his NC voters that what he really wanted to be was a congressman, except that he spent more time travelling NC than attending Senate sessions- and then when he started running for President in the middle of his Senate term (because what he -really- wanted to be was a congressman, remember?) he spent more time out of DC, out of NC, not doing the job we elected him to do. And to add insult to injury, we've been paying him all this time as if he were a Senator, even though he hasn't been doing the job!

Shoot, even my friends in the NC Assn. of Trial Lawyers weren't sure what he stood for until he started running for President. If that's the man you want running the country, I hope you like what you get.

[itai195]

What a sorry state of affairs.

[Lateralus]

Once it is revealed that Kerry is actually a robot with the personality of a mid-19th century politician implanted in it, I can't see how support won't fall to Edwards.

[SimeyTheLimey]

Originally posted by macintologist:
Edwards: positive campaign, good looking, can win southern votes, grew up poor and had to work hard (example of the American Dream™) and basically is just more likable than Bush. Interesting fact: he won a large portion of the Republican and Independent votes at the Wisconsin primary.

Because obviously trial lawyers are really popular people and becoming one is the very definition of the American Dream.[/sarcasm]

Winning Republican votes in an open primary when there is no Republican contest isn't any indication that Republicans will cross the isle in a general election. Those were more likely strategic votes. It's one reason why I think open primaries are a bad idea. They tempt people to meddle in the other party's affairs.

[boots]

Originally posted by SimeyTheLimey:
Because obviously trial lawyers are really popular people and becoming one is the very definition of the American Dream.[/sarcasm]

I understand the heart of your comment, but.....Given the numbers of people in law schools throughout the country, it seems to be giving "Doctor" a run for it's money in the American Dream department.

[SimeyTheLimey]

Originally posted by boots:
I understand the heart of your comment, but.....Given the numbers of people in law schools throughout the country, it seems to be giving "Doctor" a run for it's money in the American Dream department.

That just reflects the fact that at a certain point in life it dawns on many people that their liberal arts degrees are useless.

[boots]

Originally posted by SimeyTheLimey:
That just reflects the fact that at a certain point in life it dawns on many people that their liberal arts degrees are useless.

LOL. Yes, pizza delivery is not really the American dream, is it?

[Lerkfish]

Originally posted by SimeyTheLimey:
That just reflects the fact that at a certain point in life it dawns on many people that their liberal arts degrees are useless.

I dunno. I've done alright for myself.

[SimeyTheLimey]

Originally posted by Lerkfish:
I dunno. I've done alright for myself.

I think you probably have marketable skills unrelated to your degree. I can't draw worth a damn, for example -- which is why I originally took up photography. But I'll make a much better living as an evil BIGLAW lawyer.

[3gg3]

Originally posted by BlackGriffen:
Bwa ha ha ha! Let me count the ways:

• Zero pro bono work in a long and very successful legal career.
• Co-sponsored the PATRIOT Act
• Voted for the war in Iraq
• Experience, experience, experience (not even a one term senator)

BlackGriffen

Add:

• Painful to the ears

Not that I suspect that important political factor will impact on his overtaking Kerry.

[Krusty]

Originally posted by Lerkfish:
I dunno. I've done alright for myself.

There are exceptions to every "rule of thumb" (ever heard of a guy named "Bill Gates" who never even finished his degree ?). You're also "older" -- any degree in anything was a much bigger hoo-hah 30 years ago than it is today.

[macintologist]

Looks like I was wrong. Oh well, I hope the best for Kerry and the Democrats.