I can't believe the apoplexy that Edwards has the Republicans in

[Enraged_Ape]

I mean, for the last 24 hours, the Republicans and the whore media have been in hyperactive mode trying to discredit or slam Edwards over totally bullshit stuff, like he's a trial lawyer (GASP; so was Abe Lincoln) or that he hasn't had enough experience (like Bush has had any other experience in his life other than blowing up frogs, going on vacation, and signing death warrants).

I secretly wanted Wes Clark to be the VP candidate. I would have been very happy with John Edwards. Now I'm just ELATED. The response of the Republicans in just the last day has proven to me that their party is history. They know this, and they are absolutely terrified.

[yardwork]

1. I'm a little surprised by the frenzy myself.

Do you suppose they really thought that Kerry would pick Hillary?

I'm beginning to think that they are angry that Kerry chose a strong running mate, and now they are turning their anger on Edwards.

Typical freeper reaction. Turn their own self-loathing, bitterness, and disappointment into hatred of the Democrats. Morans.

[wicket]

6. They are definitely angry

Because they know the are TOAST.

[calimary]

29. It's because they're afraid. VERY afraid.

You're seeing the cornered animal syndrome at work. They're seeing what some of them are brave enough to recognize: handwriting on the wall.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

30. Yep. On another board someone just betrayed their envy

using the word "shrewd" to describe Kerry's act. :glee:

[killbotfactory]

2. The GOP is the party of petulant little eigth graders

It's really kind of sad.

"Edwards has cooties!"

[Bunny]

3. Yeah, I was a Wes person too.

But Edwards is great! And he has the Republicans in such a tizzy! A self-made man, sunny and optimistic, confident and secure - everything that Junior is not. They know it and they are shitting bricks!

[ewagner]

4. it's weird

the Repugs seem to have fired off every last bit of ammunition they had on Edwards all at once. They released the 28 page "dossier" on Edwards yesterday with everything they had on him and now they're grasping at straws just 24 hours after the announcement !

They've shot their wad.....they have nothing left...

truthfully, they didn't have much to begin with.

[LuminousX]

18. 28 pages

is all they got from over a year and half of research. And if you look at some of the stuff they have there, a lot of it is simply pathetic.

[tlcandie]

5. I agree... makes that old saying

about I believe thou protest too much or something similar come to mind. It does seem to me that they are actually going ballistic over Edwards and that makes me one very happy camper indeed!

:bounce:

[AlCzervik]

7. Yup, scared shitless

thats a good sign. Kerry on his worst day is 1000 times better than the chiimperior on his best day and Cheney standing next to Edwards? Good vs. evil and Cheney aint the good one.

[Gothmog]

8. I have been surprised also

The gop is frantic to discredit Senator Edwards. The fact that the Chamber of Commerce has jumped into this fight is also very strange.

[Jim Sagle]

15. Not so strange. He's an EEEVULLLLL trial lawyer.

The Pugs are slitting their own throats on this one.

[Hamlette]

20. The evil lawyer thing will backfire, and not only against Edwards

when people realize what this evil lawyer did (represent disembowled 5 year olds against evil corportate profit seekers) there goes the GOP legislation to limit jury awards. etc.

[calico1]

9. Is it any wonder?

I well remember that during the Dem. primaries, a few Rep. who spoke on condition of anonymity confided that the two candiates the GOP worried most about running against were either Kerry or Edwards. Now they have to deal with BOTH of them. No wonder their heads are spinning. I love it! :evilgrin:

[Solly Mack]

10. Edwards is what Bush pretends to be...a southerner

as strange as it may seem to some...that will make a difference to some republicans. The real boy wonder verses the phoney boy blunder.

[OpSomBlood]

11. They are scrambling and soiling their pants.

The only person that could have had them in more of an uproar would have been Howard Dean.

I love watching these fuckers squirm.

[aden_nak]

12. What Republicans See

The reason they have their nuts in a sling over Edwards is that he could be their absolute worst nightmare. What they see when they look at him is Bill Clinton without the "scandals". They don't know how to beat a wily Southern Democrat. They never have, not since Carter. Too much of their strategy is based around painting Democrats as "Urban Liberal Elitists" and that label just can't stick to a guy like Edwards. They forsee a long, terrible nightmare of Kerry/Edwards for 8, and then Edwards/Someone for 8 more. But you know what I say to that particular scenario?

Bring 'em on.

[pinballer]

34. Not so fast...............

It's true----in a society made up of sane, rational individuals, a Kerry/Edwards versus Bush/Cheney matchup would see Kerry/Edwards winning by a landslide.

But before you get too excited, you would do well to remember two things;

1) the American electorate does not always (cough, cough) make rational choices....the masses are easily led into supporting the presidential candidates that can portray themselves as being the "most moral" and the most supportive of the military (read: most willing to go to war to "protect" America)..........and I think that, at least in terms of Public perception, Bush and his people will be hard to outdo in those two areas.

2) Voting machines will play a larger part in the upcoming elections....and the Republicans have an inside man in the president of Diebold Voting Machines, and he has already publicly stated that he will "deliver" the state of Ohio to Bush. If he's willing to "deliver" one state, I shudder to think what lengths he will be willing to go to in order to insure his ultra-Conservative Repulican of choice, GWBush, remains in power.

IOW............

......the fix is in, people.

Get used to being under the rule of the hard Right neoCons.

[OKNancy]

36. I'm getting really sick of posts like this

Every Cheneying time there is a postive thread the "there is no hope the election is rigged" crowd comes throwing cold water on everything.

I'm sorry, but it's getting really annoying.

I'll make a bet right now. On Nov 4th after we've won, there will be some spotty areas of normal voting foul-ups. There isn't going to be any large scale fraud. $100.00 to DU. That's my bet, now bookmark this thread.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

47. My bet is that certain DU posters will disappear, never to surface again.

[sendero]

40. Voting fraud...

... of the type they have probably already done with voting machines and would like to do again is not as easily accomplished as some of you seem to think.

Yes, the machines or data can be rigged to say almost anything BUT, whatever the numbers are they have to make sense.

Too many people are watching them like hawks. They cannot move 3 or 4 % of the vote now under the scutiny they are under. 1%, well they might be able to do that.

I'm worried about it but not that much. Because there are going to be exit pollers out the wazoo, and the effing numbers better make sense or there will be hell to pay.

[aden_nak]

45. Limits to Un-freedom.

Hey, I know the election results are going to be tampered with. I kind of take that as a given state of existence, kind of like how water is wet, the sun is hot, and Cheney is a prick. But, to paraphrase Dubya himself, "There ought to be limits to un-freedom." And there are. Only so much can be rigged, can be bought, can be obfuscated. Does it mean the Dems have to win by 55%? 60%? Okay. . . so be it. Bring 'em on.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

46. Responses....

1. Based on what the NeoCons have done over the last four years, I doubt if they could spell "most moral", even if you spotted them the first eight letters;

2. Based on the fact that the NeoCons have cut back on nearly every basic program offered to vets and those currently serving, how anyone could believe FratBoy is "most supportive of the military" is way beyond my ability to comprehend.

3. The cat's out of the bag on the voting machines, and I'll bet that the Democrats are working behind the scenes on systems designed to detect late-night "transfers" of votes triggered by software in those Diebold Machines. We will NOT roll over and take another shafting like we did in November-December of 2000...too much is at stake and too many people are aware of that.

[kentuck]

13. Because they know they cannot win without the South...

And he threatens them in that vital area..:)

[hippiegranny]

14. you just know they were working their voodoo dolls overtime

in the hope that kerry would pick nice, quiet, boring gephardt! bwaahahahahahahaha

[Ilsa]

16. I visit another board

about another subject, but political discussions get pretty intense over there. People really want to dump Cheney for all of his garbage. 60% say they will vote for Kerry (not scientific polling).

Recently someone mentioned how "godly" Dimson is and I asked about the F-bomb attacks, hypocrisy of them picking at Kerry for saying F-bombs, and Shrub's repeated use of them during in his interview with Tucker Carlson in Talk Magazine in 1999. Gets Repugs pretty steamed up. Sometimes they ask "How do you know if you weren't there?" bullshit questions.

[BattyDem]

17. My favorite criticism is that he's "unaccomplished"

Hmmm ... let's see ...

He comes from a working-class family, attended public school and was the first person in his family to go to college - he graduated with high honors; he also graduated law school with high honors.

He spent his entire legal career representing the "little guys" against the "big guys" ... and became a self-made millionaire in the process - the epitome of the "American Dream"

He and his wife, Elizabeth have been married for 27 years and had 4 children.

In memory of their son, he and Elizabeth established an education foundation that offers college scholarships. They also opened a learning lab to give students after-school access to computers and technology.

When he decided to run for the US Senate, he defeated an incumbent.

After only one term in the Senate, he is now the Democratic candidate for Vice-President.



Oh yeah ... this guy hasn't accomplished a damn thing. What a loser! :eyes:

[deacon]

28. If anyone is unaccomplised it is the miserable failure in the WH n/t

[gulliver]

31. No DUIs, no bankrupt companies saved by Dad's friends...

... no failure to get into law school, no draft avoidance... This guy just does not have what a Republican likes to see in a president.

[Retrograde]

39. yeah, but how many businesses did he run into the ground ;-)

Edwards looks like the GOP ideal - self-made man, good family values, upbeat about America - what's not to like?

[Lugnut]

19. I'm enjoying it

I love watching them fall all over themselves grasping at straws.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

21. Their response is revealing, isn't it?!

:toast:

[mourningdove92]

22. I thought I was prepared for how ugly this is going to be,

but I confess that the vetriol coming out of Bushco has even me surprised. Yesterday, it came so swiftly, but not very well prepared. Its like watching them do the buckshot thing....shoot and shoot and shoot and hope SOMETHING hits. If I had not been so out of my mind with joy yesterday, it could have bummed me right out, but no, I was too happy.
Today, I am finding it all very amusing. Children throwing temper tantrums because someone took their candy. They are so going to lose.

And I loved how John Kerry took the rw favorite "tag" regarding their hair by thowing it right back at them, with humor. I have a feeling we will see a lot of this. RW throws trash, Kerry/Edwards slam dunks it right back in their faces.

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Yes, buckshot. That's exactly how they are working this thing! *l*

--------------------------------------------------------
An open letter to John Kerry, John Edwards, and the DNC:
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/OpenLetter.htm

[sendero]

41. Maybe I'm being over optimistic...

... but I think this kind of barrage attack will lose them lots of votes. Americans are not real well informed, but by and large they are not stupid. They hear all the bullsh*t being spewed and in their minds it reflects badly on the bullsh*tters.

I expect Bush*'s numbers to erode from this point on.

[chookie]

23. Smirky is going to make Orlando Bloom his running mate

They are very upset we have the prettiest candidate. They are also very upset that Kerry made such a great strategic move.

The big trouble for them is that Edwards is not just pretty; he is no lightweight, and that people absolutely love him, are totally charmed by him.

The Bushistas have always tried to prevail by stealing the other guys fire -- in this case, the Dems beat them to it. His Chimperial Highness has always been sold to us as utterly charming, a guy that EVERYONE likes (even though 47% of people can't stand him). Imagine their panic when they find him running against a guy who REALLY is good looking and charming -- and who is smart and has great policies with broad appeal to average Americans?

They will accuse him of being a lightweight -- but people will see with their own eyes that he is more knowledgable and articulate that the smirk (a true, genuine, authentic lightweight nitwit). They'll accuse him of being a "trial lawyer" -- but he will win hearts as someone who fights for the "little guy"like 99% of us in this country are. They will accuse him of being "liberal" -- which is utter horseradish.

The key to this election is the swing vote -- the "swingsters" don't always use rational means to make up their mind -- and yes, they will elect a cute, charming guy -- who is also articulate and intelligent with appealing policies.

Remember how we were told that soccer moms were SWOONING over George W in his flight suit :puke:? Who'dya think these women are going to want to see -- Cheney, or Edwards? John Edwards has the "Jackie" factor, on top of everything else. He is as refreshing a change from the ordinary pol as you can get.

Gee -- they have been running guys like Rick Santorum and Jack Ryan and Arnold Dan Quayle and George P Bush, all of which they tell us have "eye appeal" :puke: -- and now WE have the pick of the litter.

[fofer]

26. Ack---they say Santorum has eye appeal?????

They're even more deluded than I thought. :-)

[GiovanniC]

44. How Many Voted For Hannity To Pose in Playgirl?

If that doesn't turn your stomach and haunt your dreams for a week, then you just ain't human.

[cthrumatrix]

24. but but..."amurika follows a ..a...a leader" -- this is his comeback?

[cmf]

25. I'm not surprised

They were afraid of him during the primaries. What did they say about him? Something like "Clinton, but without the baggage." He's their worst nightmare.

I'm with you - Wes was my first choice for VP, but I'm elated with Kerry's choice of Edwards!

[Oddman]

32. The Neocons DREADED this ticket . . .

and well they should . . .

[Art_from_Ark]

35. It's CLOBBERING TIME!

Time to kick some neocon butt!

[Generator]

42. Look at that picture! LOVE it

It's all about the image, ain't it? We are winning the image thang. AT LAST.

[jokerman93]

33. John Squared

I love it. I can see where Kerry and Edwards are taking this, and baby, this is going to be fun! These two studs are about to rip the Freepers a brand new a**hole all over our America!

Bring 'em on!

[Padraig18]

37. That's what 'scared shitless' looks and sounds like!

They're going down, and they know it!

:evilgrin:

[Piperay]

38. I am Clarkie too and

I am THRILLED by the Kerry/Edward's ticket! :bounce:

[ArnoldLayne]

43. It's like all

of their heads are exploding at the same time. They all need to take a xanax or something to chill out a little.