Breaking: Edwards endorsing Obama
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- Dr_Rand
at around 6:30
- fowleryo0
hell yeah
- kona0
it's on!
- landock0
take that women
- mikotondria30
woohoo!! I thought I knew I always liked John Edwards.
- He could endorse Obama, light up a doobie and throw wads of cash to the audience and i still wouldn't like or trust this guylocustsloth
- CALLES0
probl vice pres candidate?
- I say attorney generalflashbender
- i say just pretty boyCALLES
- I say pretty mouthflashbender
- I say pretty ghey!OSFA
- OnesandZeros0
looks like we have a v.p. candidate
- dbloc0
he waits until right before obama is the nominee anyway.
- flashbender0
that should shut her up about the hillbillies she won in West Virginia.
- Mimio0
Right, didn't 7% of WV vote for Edwards?
- that's because they don't realize he is no longer in the running.flashbender
- harlequino0
I'd rather see Bill Richardson as vp nom I think.
- Dr_Rand0
"The word was to give HRC space thru this past weekend for her to concede....instead her minions came out and got weirder and weirder with math even the great salami could not fathom. Then she brought up race again this morning....ding! She wasn't changing...she was taking it thru...the party cannot take her damage...queue Edwards and get Webb ready in the wings. They don't want to miss the chance to capitalize on the MS win...and they will now control the news cycle right at the height of her 'win'. "
- this made me laugh. YOu're pretty spot on though. It is all about media coverage and spinflashbender
- mg330
Edwards doesn't want the VP spot. He already said that after he dropped out.
- Mimio0
The VP will need foreign policy experience.
- Or we're toast.Mimio
- I'll settle for toast experience at this point.harlequino
- flavorful0
I guess this is the out and out endorsement, as he has been pro-Obama even more as of late.
- Dr_Rand0
"This is it, folks. The one. The final piece of straw set atop the shambling camel of the GOP, the one which clove its dessicated humps in two.
Only it's more like a ton of bricks crushing the Republican roach.
Let's take stock of this race to see what I mean:
This district has a PVI of R+10. It voted for Bush 62-37 in the last election. Only seven Democrats sit in comparably red seats - and not a single Republican sits in a seat as blue as this one is red. And almost every major prognosticator (at least at the start) treated this as a safe seat.
The GOP had a perfectly serviceable candidate in Greg Davis - a standard wingnut with none of the baggage of Woody Jenkins in LA-06 or Jim Oberweis in IL-14.
The NRCC spent $1.3 million on this race. Freedom's Crotch spent at least $400K more - and used illegal tactics to boot. And of course Davis himself raised over a million.
They sent in Mike Huckabee, Thad Cochran, Trent Lott, Haley Barbour, and Roger Wicker.
And when that wasn't enough, Darth Cheney came to town, to stump and raise money.
The GOP played up Obama/Pelosi/"librul" fear-mongering to the hilt. They were shameless in exploiting whatever racial angle they thought would work.
And yet what happened? Despite all this, Travis Childers just became the newest member of the Democratic Caucus with a resounding 54-46 win. It's utterly unspinnable. Even Tom Cole knew not to try.But a sober press release only sees him through a single night. At dawn the next day, he has to face the same vast universe of problems that existed even before Childers won, except they will loom much larger and much more sharply. Almost every potentially contestable Republican seat is in play now. The "every man for himself" mentality that has taken hold amongst the GOP will become even more firmly entrenched, dooming already-weak NRCC fundraising. In Congress, discipline will likely suffer as vulnerable members (ie, much of the caucus) are tempted to side with the Dems. And we may even see some more retirements. Things are going to get much, much worse before they ever get better for the GOP - if they do at all.
For a lot of reasons, this to me is the sweetest of our three recent special election victories. But to the GOP, seldom has more bitter medicine passed their lips. Glib commentators will say that the Republican brand is tarnished. The fact is, it is the Republican Party which itself is broken.
And this election is what helped break it."