Edwards and Clark are still viable candidates for '08 - who else?

I know, I know, another 2008 thread.

John Stauber of the Center for Media & Democracy
http://www.prwatch.org/
has said it very eloquently. Please scroll down to his name to read
his
piece or simply read below. http://www.alternet.org/election04/20388/

John Stauber:


Only one U.S. Senator had the courage and the commitment to civil
liberties to vote
against the Patriot Act in the weeks after the terror attacks of 9/11.
Pop quiz, quick,
name that Senator! If you said the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, you'd be
wrong. Even the
feisty progressive from Minnesota failed to oppose John Ashcroft's
attack on civil
liberties sold as essential to fight Bush's war on terror.


The lone opponent of the Patriot Act was Sen. Russ Feingold of
Wisconsin, Wellstone's
colleague across the Mississippi River.


Fast forward to the fall of 2002 and the run-up to Bush's war on Iraq.
Democratic
senators, including Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle, John Edwards and
John Kerry all voted
to give President Bush the authority to attack Saddam Hussein. Russ
Feingold voted
against the war. I spoke at the time with a Feingold staff member who
worried that
these two votes would doom Feingold in his 2004 race for re-election.
"We'll be bashed
viciously as weak on terror and anti-war, they'll trash us mercilessly
and it will cost
Russ his race."


Probably just what advisors to Kerry and Edwards were thinking.
Indeed, Feingold's 2004
opponent Republican Tim Michels, a millionaire construction company
owner and a former
US Army Ranger, beat three Republicans to win his party's nomination.
Michels dumped
over a million dollars of his own money into an aggressive advertising
campaign
skewering Feingold as weak on terror and not supportive of the troops.
However, when
the polls closed at 8 PM on November 2nd, with no votes even counted
yet, all the major
media declared the race over and predicted Feingold's victory based on
the exit polls
alone.


John Kerry voted for the Patriot Act and the war, and was barely
beating George Bush in
Wisconsin. The lesson is this: Russ Feingold proves that an anti-war,
populist
Democrat, a maverick campaigning to get big money out of politics, can
win and win big.
But given a choice between a real Republican and a Democrat such as
John Kerry who acts
like a Republican, many voters will choose the Republican.
Progressives looking for a
viable candidate for the presidency in the future should not overlook
the man from
Middleton, Wisconsin, Russ Feingold.

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He would have to start campainging in his second year in the Senate.

He is the future, someone else needs to take the reins in 2008.

Edwards is a dead issue, what's he going to do for the next 2.5 years?

Obama/Earle '08.

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Mark Warner is the best idea.

Mark Warner can and will win if he gets the nod.

Screw the DLC, they must be purged from the party.

Must be a Governor. Mark Warner, Ed Rendell, Bill Richardson or Easley. No more senators or candidates that can't win in the south.

This one would win.

They will probably never let him be a candidate.