Typical Repuke Editorial on Edwards

[Bryan Buchan]

Typical, this ass praises Thompson, somehow tries to make a comparison of Huckabee standings in the GOP race, someone who cannot surface above the evangelical vote, compared against Edwards, inferring Edwards cannot surface above his progressive base...and then calls Edwards a flat out liar in everything he is fighting for.

snip~Mike Huckabee is not going to be president. The loss in South Carolina, one of the most highly evangelical states in the union, made that plain. With a ceiling of 14 percent among nonevangelical Republicans, Huckabee's base is simply too narrow. But his was not a rise and then a fall. He came from nowhere to establish himself as the voice of an important national constituency. Huckabee will continue to matter, and might even carry enough remaining Southern states to wield considerable influence at a fractured Republican convention.~snip

~snip- Then there is John Edwards. He's not going to be president either. He stays in the race because, with the Democrats' proportional representation system, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton might end up in a very close delegate race -- perhaps allowing an also-ran with, say, 10 percent of the delegates to act as kingmaker at the convention.

It's a prize of sorts, it might even be tradeable for a Cabinet position. But at considerable cost. His campaign has been a spectacle.

Edwards has made much of his renunciation of his Iraq War vote. But he has not stopped there. His entire campaign has been an orgy of regret and renunciation.

-- As senator, he voted in 2001 for a bankruptcy bill that he now denounces.

-- As senator, he voted for storing nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Twice. He is now fiercely opposed.

-- As senator, he voted for the Bush-Kennedy No Child Left Behind education reform. He now campaigns against it, promising to have it "radically overhauled."

-- As senator, he voted for the Patriot Act, calling it "a good bill ... and I am pleased to support it." He now attacks it.~snip

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/01/edwards_campaign_of_regret_and.html

Written by http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/author/charles_krauthammer/

[redqueen]

1. "this ass praises Thompson"

That says it all, really.

[AndyA]

2. This has been posted several times already this morning.

The author is a neoconservative, George Bush appointee, who comments for Faux News and hates anyone and everyone with a (D) after their name.

It's not really worth commenting on, just another GOP bullshit hit piece.

[Gloria]

3. He's in our paper, today, too....Our RW Gannett-puppy...I suppose

he will swoon over Romney, though...

PS Charles.....Edwards mentioned forged docs before his vote on Yucca...