Many people wanted John Edwards as John Kerry's Veep Choice in 2004. How did that work out?

John Kerry's hand was forced in my opinion back in 2004.

Is that what we want to do again?

I don't.

Let the Nominee pick his Veep.......as he earned that right.

go away

what a swell and honorable guy he turned out to be.

just as I didn't care about Monica, don't care about McCain's affair, etc. Just as I don't care who my doctor is sleeping with. I care whether or not they can do the job they're running for. !

paying off with campaign money, though.

and no, I'm not going anywhere.

I have for the most part not expressed any opinions on John Edwards in quite some time.
not even in reference to some recent revelations. So please stop the outrage and excuse the hell out of me for mentioning his name as it pertained to the Vice President selection of 2004.

Three mealy-mouthed comments, actually.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=235&topic_id=9034#9072

opinions=mealy-mouthed comments? Maybe YOU should
go away!

...as in "contentless". Go read the 2007 thread. He said nothing.

erh.....I have never made it a secret that I didn't care for John Edwards.
Sorry if I had any sway in the fact that he is not the nominee.

How can I make it up to you?

and lied about it.

the fact that he was more or less forced on John Kerry, and it was a very poor fit. I don't know why Kerry bought into that stuff. Edwards had a great PR team pushing him out front, and it worked. This year it has been a bit better since I don't see anybody that is actually running for VP, though the "top four" crap the media has been talking about is nauseating.

:popcorn:

Unless he was from Ohio or Florida. No other major state was potentially swayed by a VP and the VP is laughably overstated otherwise. I love these threads that assert a VP will influence entire regions or voting blocks.

I'd be thrilled with Hillary but if Obama picks her nothing changes, other than a few points in Arkansas that won't be enough, and a handful of unneeded points in New York.

Edwards was worth precisely what he figured to bring, and what I predicted on this forum for months, a bump of 3-3.5 points in North Carolina. The partisan index (state relationship to national margin) moved 3.3 points in our favor in that state, comparing 2004 to 2000.

he would be consider for at least a position in the Obama administration.

Now he won't be able to take out the garbage in the White House.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1110165.stm

Strange to relate, you won't find a word about his economic legacy in his Wikipedia entry. Well, I think I scanned it fairly closely.

in the Obama administration? I for one would scream bloody murder, because his biggest fan and supporter was his wife, and he stabbed her in the back in her greatest time of need,

This was a case where penis diplomacy mattered.

though he couldn't carry his own home state.

Then again, Edwards wsn't really the problem in 2004. He didn't really hurt the ticket- though he also didn't add anything.

was the first one to call Edwards after he was picked. Sounded right to me since his goons, Carville and Begala were singing Edwards praises during the primary.

And I was told by a long-time party Democrat (a really nice lady) that it was to be a Kerry/Edwards ticket, they would lose but not by much, and Hillary would run in 08. Then there was the one talking head, Susan Estrich, crowing about how Clinton was such a political genius AFTER the Kerry/Edwards ticket was decided.

This is a last minute effort by the Clinton gang to get Hillary on the ticket. And if they don't succeed, what the heck, they can piss off some of her supporters and help McCain.

They've been pushing Obama to pick a Washington Insider because they are desperate to paint him as another Washington politician (and McCain the true maverick). I hope he's smart enough to run in the other direction.

I agree with your overall point, but I'm not sure what you can point to that lays the blame for 2004 on Edwards.