I'm feeling a tiny bit of excitement again-if Dean loses/drops out,Edwards

[patricia92243]

could spark that bit of enthusiasm that has died with my hopes for Howard Dean.

Yes, I will vote for Kerry if he is the nominee - but in a ho-hum, I have to do this - sort of way.

With Edwards, I feel INTERESTED again - not just a spectator. I hope he charges full speed ahead.

[AP]

1. Kerry excites me like Gore excited me, which wasn't much.

I've been incredibly excited about Edwards for over a year and have been so confused about why it has taken everyone else so long to feel what I feel. But it's better late than never, I guess.

[ibegurpard]

2. I hope you're prepared for the onslaught

Edwards has largely escaped a lot of the vitriol here because not a lot of people have taken him very seriously. Expect that to change very quickly.

[DjTj]

3. We're already feeling it...

...the Kerry supporters (even Kucinich's Press Secretary) have all of a sudden woken up to a new threat.

So far, it's just been the standard inexperience, can't really win in the South, Freepers are voting for him stuff.

Us Edwards supporters are much more up to date on his record than any of the critics because they've ignored us for so long.

I'm happy to finally be on the big stage. We're coming up in that rearview mirror real quick...

[AP]

5. Yeah. Did you hear he wrote the Patriot Act without reading it?

The New York Times said so. So I reprinted it.

[DjTj]

6. Haha

This has actually been a lot of fun. The more I delve into Edwards' record the better I feel.

He actually does have credibility on the trade issue, which I didn't really know before about a week ago.

[AP]

4. He's handled everything that's been thrown at him since 98

I have confidence that he'll do fine.

But I'm expecting a lot of shit.

[WyLoochka]

7. I'd be interested and supportive too

It's absolutely critical that the GOP Tort Reform movement be halted and the pieces of it already rammed through, beginning with the RayGun days, be reversed.

The GOP aims to effectively slam the doors of the Courts in the faces of the people, thus denying access to the very place where we are SUPPOSED to redress grievances. Edwards will eloquently state the case as to why these doors must stay open and stir the passions of the people to wake them from their slumbering apathy.

If not Dean (which I think is a huge missed opportunity for real, across the board change) then I'll settle for Edwards and no one else. I'm sick of the sliming of trial lawyers, the very people who defend us against the rapacious corporations, while virtually no one complains or tries to do diddly squat about the perpetrations of Federalist Society corpo lawyers.