If Edwards is nominated, I will vote for...

[JohnLocke]

[Renew Deal]

1. Harold Brown

or Vermin Supreme

[Paulie]

2. Other

I'm Ham Sandwich (D) all the way after the primaries!!! WhooHoo! I'm so (yawn) excited!

[ncrainbowgrrl]

3. Ok, who voted for the chimp?

[Hippo_Tron]

38. Lurking freepers n/t

[AndyP]

4. just tell me

when and where and who to vote for and I'm there!

[Deja Q]

5. Anyone who didn't say Edwards is a:

1> Traitor
2> Selfish prick who doesn't care about getting Bush* out of power
3> Supporter and friend of Bush*
4> All of the above

Surely "the lesser of two evils" is ANYBODY nominated who isn't Bush*? How could any of them, except Nader, be worse?

Nader is nothing more than burnt toast shavings...

Edit: Sorry to be harsh, but polls like this damningly prove there is a relevant "NB_" problem that is equal to or far surpasses the Green party problem... though a minor one, it could still be enough to help * win.

[Paulie]

7. Pfft

You get the ham sandwich in office with your prick comment.

Are you sure you're not the black guardian?????

[boxster]

6. Why is it that no one bitches about "loyalty oaths" when the person

in question is Edwards?

Just curious - I'm still undecided between Edwards and Kerry.

[JohnLocke]

9. This isn't a "loyalty oath."

It's simply an indicator of how DUers feel about Edwards.

[boxster]

10. Exactly. It's no different than the polls about Kerry or Clark that many

people bitched constantly about.

That was my point. The others weren't loyalty oaths, either.

[JohnLocke]

11. My feelings: those who complain should hide the thread.

[boxster]

14. Obviously, you're missing my point.

By now, any poll with these exact same choices, but with Kerry's name (or Clark's name before he dropped out), would be flooded with "I'm voting third party" or "I just don't trust him" posts, primarily from Dean supporters.

Edwards obviously doesn't draw the same kind of ire, and that's a good thing.

[PVnRT]

22. Hmmmm

When one of those polls that you're talking about pops up once every two hours, that's what people complain about. This is exactly ONE thread.

Never mind that you have selectively forgotten the fact that those threads in question were directed at Dean supporters...but go back to your fantasy world, I'm sure it's much nicer there.

[IndianaGreen]

8. Edwards will make a fine President

and I will be happy to vote for him in November.

[PurityOfEssence]

17. Ya know, I hear a lot of that.

Thanks. For all the tussling of the past, the most frustrating moments--and the ones that elicited the tartest responses from me--were the ones when I thought you were being unreasonable. You are, in essence, a sensible person, and moments like this confirm that.

I hope this isn't sounding condescending; it wasn't meant to be.

The point of my response is that I've heard this from many people, and it reassures me that he's connecting on many levels with all sorts of people. We're all mixed bags and ciphers of our past, but of the subset of people who could get into the position of actually getting elected President, this guy's about as good as it gets.

Truly, this is the season of dashed hopes, as many have fallen in love with candidates, seen rises and hopes being fulfilled, just to see them taken from their grasp. With a bit of good fortune and the whim of the media and the moment, we might actually get a break here.

It could be a watershed moment, and this could usher in an era of decency in this country. Were we to take the House as well as the Presidency, the resultant discoveries about just how ugly the monarchists have been of late may well marginalize them into remission. Still, it could easily blow the other way, and if we lose in the fall, a truly dark age may befall us for years to come.

You've been chiming in on the subject quite a bit of late, and I truly appreciate that; you are one of the core posters of this board, and that means a lot.

(Doncha just thirst for a series of debates between him and the Connecticut Cowboy?)

[IndianaGreen]

19. A lot of people are not even aware that Bush is a Connecticut transplant

and that he pretends to be a Texas rancher.

President Johnson was a true Texan and he had a real ranch.

Edwards connected when he spoke against legacy admissions, a pet peeve of mine.

I enjoy listening to Edwards, while Kerry can never give a straight answer to anything. Edwards nailed him when he said that Kerry's answer was the longest answer he ever heard on a "Yes" "No" question.

Kerry makes Bush a sympathetic character!

[AP]

34. Just read this by Nick Lemann, and thought it might be relevant here:

American populism operates more by a logic of culture and background than by a logic of present-day circumstances. In the 2000 campaign, in which two sons of prominent officeholders, educated at prep schools and Ivy League colleges, were pitted against each other, Bush succeeded in putting himself across as the populist and Gore as the élitist. (Though it seems counterintuitive, in recent years Republicans and conservatives have resorted more freely to populism than Democrats and liberals have.) Edwards is better off financially than either Bush or Gore, but somehow, because of a combination of background and presentation skills, against him either of them would look like the country-club guy.

http://blog.johnedwards2004.com/comments.pl?sid=2432&op=&newsid=04/02/22/2258208&threshold=0&commentsort=1&mode=nested&cid=100444

[tedoll78]

12. Happily, I will vote for Edwards.

He'd be a definite two-termer. Something just tells me this.

Imagine the young appointees he'd put-up. Uber-liberals in their 30's who are planning to spend the rest of their long, long lives on the high court's bench. That'd be so friggin' awesome!

[MrSlayer]

13. Bush! Because Edwards is no different.

Just Kidding. I'd vote for any Democrat over the Chimp.

[BurtWorm]

15. I might sit this election out.

I would be profoundly disappointed if Edwards were nominated. I would feel completely alienated not only from my fellow Americans but from my fellow Democrats.

[robbedvoter]

16. Reminder, before you answer

"Can I just go back a moment ago -- to a question you asked just a moment ago? You asked, I believe, Senator Kerry earlier whether there's an exaggeration of the threat of the war on terrorism.
"It's just hard for me to see how you can say there's an exaggeration when thousands of people lost their lives on September the 11th."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/transcripts/debatetranscript29.html

MATTHEWS: OK. I just want to get one thing straight so that we know how you would have been different in president if you had been in office the last four years as president. Would you have gone to Afghanistan?
EDWARDS: I would.
MATTHEWS: Would you have gone to Iraq?
EDWARDS: I would have gone to Iraq.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3131295/

[VOX]

20. Same link, same question -- Edwards: "Don’t misunderstand me."

EDWARDS: I don’t think I would have approached it the way this president did. I don’t think--See I think what happened, if you remember back historically, remember I had an up or down vote. I stand behind it. Don’t misunderstand me.
MATTHEWS: Right.
EDWARDS: I stand behind it. But if I were president of the United States, instead of going to the United Nations as an afterthought, which is how this president did it-- If I had been president of the United States, I would have been building the case over a long period of time, bringing an international pressure on Saddam Hussein.
I think the result of the way he built up to this war was he made it virtually impossible to get United Nations support.
- - - - -
The Iraq scenario with Edwards is quite different that the unilateral invasion with by the * administration. Edwards has been repeatedly clear in denouncing the unilateral invasion. In fact, it's possible that there would have been no invasion at all under Edwards, with a proper UN international coalition at hand.

[RafterMan]

21. What was he going to to when they said "No"?

"I think we couldn’t let those who could veto in the Security Council hold us hostage."

That's what.

[VOX]

18. Edwards, with ease.

Good man, good candidate, puts fear in the collective heart of the GOP.

[Egnever]

23. What difference does it make?

Two versions of the same coin. Edwards/Kerry ...nither one had the balls to stand up when it counted. Nothing will change under either of them... four more years of america sold to the highest bidder.

Kucinich and Nader are the only true voices of change left in this election not that I agree with either of them on everything. but they arent influence pedlers like Kerry and Edwards.

[PVnRT]

24. Edwards

n/t

[Tinoire]

25. Edwards by the time AP is done with me

His anti-NAFTA history will make the bitter IWR pill go down easier.

[JohnLocke]

35. AP is very, very convincing.

[GreenArrow]

26. reluctantly,

I'll vote for the Peanut Butter Samich (I). Better for your health than ham.

[RafterMan]

27. If it must be vegetarian

I'm Nobody But Falafel (I).

[GreenArrow]

28. reluctantly,

I'm changing candidates! Falafel Sandwich (I) 2004. If we can get the word out on Falafel (I) election will be wrapped up and in Falafel's pocket in no time. And with a running mate like Humous, this ticket can't be beat!

[RafterMan]

29. It's a plan

Tomorrow I will make a $5.00 donation towards the election of Falafel, and spend my lunchtime chewing over his (her?) campaign.

[LoZoccolo]

30. What states can Hummus win that Falafel Sandwich cant?

I think we need Baba Ghanouj instead if we want to play the states game.

[dkf]

31. Edwards is a much lesser evil than Kerry who is a slightly lesser evil

than Bush.

Edwards would have my vote instantly. Kerry has to work at it. Bush forget it.

Nader? Hmmm. I'll think about it.

[TheDonkey]

40. because Edwards has a more liberal voting rec...

oh wait. n/m.

:eyes:

ABK baffles me.

[Crunchy Frog]

32. ABB all the way

Whoever gets the nomination gets my vote.

[Piperay]

33. Edwards

of course.

[Goldberg]

36. Edwards all the way.

Forget Kerry.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

37. Edwards is just alright with me!

I'd have no problems pulling the lever for him.

[TheDonkey]

39. I'd vote for Bush.

j/k

I'm ABB. Kerry is my #1, but Edwards is 100000000000000000000000000000000000000x better than the idiot sitting in the WH now.