Thursday, December 28, 2006
'Tain't you, John Edwards
John Edwards, whose Osmond-esque smile prettied up the Democratic presidential ticket in 2004, is running for president ... again. He announced his bid this morning in New Orleans. Quoth Edwards: "America deserves a great president in 2009." 'Tain't you, John, sorry.
I will give John Edwards credit for one thing: he has brass ones the size of basketballs. What makes him think that Americans are ready to elect as president an undistinguished single-term senator who's not going to win his own state's votes in the Electoral College? Let's not forget that Edwards dropped his bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate when his internal polls showed that North Carolina voters were less than enamored with their pretty-boy senator, to say the least. Indeed, a Mason-Dixon poll conducted in October 2003 indicated that only 42 percent of voters in North Carolina would've "definitely vote[d] to re-elect Edwards" as Senator -- a pitiful showing for a sitting officeholder who was less than a year away from re-election.
John Edwards is hoping that his "Two Americas" campaign, a none-too-subtle attempt to invoke the spirit of Robert Kennedy circa 1968, will be able to overcome the Hillary Clinton money-'N'-name-ID juggernaut. He can hope such, and he can pray, but his campaign is destined to be overwhelmed by Democratic forces for whom a Clinton Administration, Part II, is a prospect just this side of total nirvana.
As we all know, Democratic presidential primaries are dominated by party operatives and leftist true believers. Right now, these folks are salivating at the prospect of a Hillary-Obama ticket. Unless and until Hillary or Obama has a "macaca" moment, Edwards is a certified second-tier presidential candidate. Hell, Edwards'd be doing us all a bigger the next year and a half in New Orleans trying to figure out why the city's recently re-elected mayor, Ray Nagin, deserves no scorn for last year's post-hurricane misery and mayhem.
I will give John Edwards credit for one thing: he has brass ones the size of basketballs. What makes him think that Americans are ready to elect as president an undistinguished single-term senator who's not going to win his own state's votes in the Electoral College? Let's not forget that Edwards dropped his bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate when his internal polls showed that North Carolina voters were less than enamored with their pretty-boy senator, to say the least. Indeed, a Mason-Dixon poll conducted in October 2003 indicated that only 42 percent of voters in North Carolina would've "definitely vote[d] to re-elect Edwards" as Senator -- a pitiful showing for a sitting officeholder who was less than a year away from re-election.
John Edwards is hoping that his "Two Americas" campaign, a none-too-subtle attempt to invoke the spirit of Robert Kennedy circa 1968, will be able to overcome the Hillary Clinton money-'N'-name-ID juggernaut. He can hope such, and he can pray, but his campaign is destined to be overwhelmed by Democratic forces for whom a Clinton Administration, Part II, is a prospect just this side of total nirvana.
As we all know, Democratic presidential primaries are dominated by party operatives and leftist true believers. Right now, these folks are salivating at the prospect of a Hillary-Obama ticket. Unless and until Hillary or Obama has a "macaca" moment, Edwards is a certified second-tier presidential candidate. Hell, Edwards'd be doing us all a bigger the next year and a half in New Orleans trying to figure out why the city's recently re-elected mayor, Ray Nagin, deserves no scorn for last year's post-hurricane misery and mayhem.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, December 28, 2006 
