now the reupkes are desperate...digging up dirt on Edward's family

[greenbriar]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=11&u=/ap/20040717/ap_on_el_pr/edwards_brother

DENVER - The younger brother of vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites) is wanted on a Colorado warrant issued a decade ago in a drunken driving case.







Wesley Blake Edwards, a 39-year-old electrician who lives in Fuquay-Varina, N.C., was arrested on Nov. 4, 1993, for allegedly driving under the influence, careless driving and driving without insurance, said Drew Grant, spokesman for the 18th Judicial District attorney's office.


A warrant was issued in early 1994, after he failed to appear in court in suburban Arapahoe County on the charges, Grant said Friday.

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[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. And they have to dig up crap from 10 years ago

is it time to bring up the Bush family's brushes with the law? Thai teenage prostitutes and smuggling goods through customs comes to mind...

[greenbriar]

2. I agree

but the press is bushwacked

[coloradodem2005]

6. I do.

They tell us to let go of AWOL and the DUI as well as the fact that they got covered up. As well as all of the shit that Bush's family got in trouble for, his and Jeb's kids, or what happened to Neil Bush, but want to drag Kerry and Edwards through the mud over what happened to them or their family 10 years ago? Bullshit.

[banana republican]

Maybe we should start talking about Prescott Bush

and his trading with the enemies....

[banana republican]

3. Maybe we should start talking about Prescott Bush

and his trading with the enemies....


WOW two posts with one click.....

[greenbriar]

5. I say NONE Of the bushco's are off limits anymore

they are talking about Wade Edwards on talk radio and how "convienant" that there are no records...


I say take off the gloves!


Leave NO bush behind in the media.

[aquart]

19. No records?? Let's see George's original Texas driver's license.

He got a brand new license with a brand new number when he became governor. The license carries a legal history. Where's the original license and what was on it?

[madrchsod]

4. oh my god!!!

that`s just awful-bush`s brother screwing asian hookers ,his nephews charged with various sex and other crimes,his sister in law`s jewelry problem..gee the list goes on and on...

[Kelvin Mace]

7. And one of the Bush brothers is a

coke-snorting drunk, who.... oh wait, that's George.

[greenbriar]

9. well it says that Edward's brother is 39 so that means

under bush's logic, he has one more year before anything counts against him

[aquart]

20. Don't forget Silverado Neil. The one with hooker STD.

[Cleita]

8. He's not running for office and next to the Bush Crime Family's rap

sheet, this pales in comparison.

[VolcanoJen]

10. You'd think Bush would encourage Faith-Based Rehab.

And as schoolteacherpam said, according to the Bush Book of Adulthood and Responsibility, Wes Edwards has one more year of screwing up before he gets his pre-40 record erased. :D

[Larkspur]

11. These are the Lee Atwater tactics

Why is anyone surprised?

[VolcanoJen]

12. Yep. Straight out of the Lee Atwater Playbook.

It's the go-to plan for these guys, whenever their backs are against the wall.

The Edwards/Kerry are Gay Lovers crap floated by Drudge and carried by every major media outlet was another Atwater-esque smear.

Expect these smears to keep coming, fast and furious.

[greenbriar]

14. if Kerry won't smear we need to

this can't happen

[VolcanoJen]

15. We will NOT allow ourselves to be Willie Horton-ized.

I never thought I'd see an uglier presidential campaign than 1988, but I'm starting to think they're going to make Bush-Dukakis look like child's play.

Who is Rove's go-to smear guy? Who is carrying the Atwater mantle these days? And don't ever forget Atwater's deathbed confessions and apologies. I doubt he rests in peace, regardless.

[aquart]

21. Atwater of the deathbed repentence?

This the guy who became a decent human being when God smote his evil rotten brain with a tumor?

[Skittles]

23. Atwater was genuinely shocked at the compassion of Democrats

shown to him and his family during his illness. I think it was real. Not soon enough, but I think he really did see the error of his ways before he passed away.

[Citizen Daryl]

13. Drunk driving? Hell, Bush and Cheney have both done that.

And Edwards' brother, last time I heard, wasn't running for vice-president.

[Lancer]

17. What BS from Atwater. . .

in my experience, NO repug ever has any empathy for another person or is willing to admit his personal nastiness until he or a family member is knocking at death's door.

I've seen it over and over, with acquaintances and people in public life.

George Will comes to mind. He said, no federal money should ever be spent on research or development of methods to eradicate neurological diseases in children. Waste of taxpayers money. So, what happens when Will's nephew is born with some horrific disorder that dooms him to life in leg braces, a wheelchair and a bib? Overnight conversion.

Column after column and numerous self-serving pleas on This Week on ABC to please give these kids a chance. . . write your Congressman, blah blah blah.

Barry Goldwater also uttered a bunch of deathbed mea culpas to Ed Bradley just before he kicked.

I know I'm O/T and rambled on too long, but sheesh. I can stand almost anything but sanctimonious sniveling.

[WolverineDG]

16. my heavens

is it my imagination or do the republicans keep picking at kerry & edwards on topics that are bound to blow up in their faces? (vietnam, criminal records, etc....sheesh.....) i bet there's way more criminal dirt on bush & his family than there is on kerry & edwards combined.

it isn't like we haven't elected someone to be president whose brother was sent to the Big House.

dg

[greenbriar]

18. as long as they keep up their stupidity

its funny, but their tactics make me sick

[Skittles]

22. the Bush-Cheney campaign talking about DRUNK DRIVING

now that is RICH.

[HEyHEY]

24. It's time to start doing the same to BUSh

Make the coke thing a HUGE issue