How about a Gephardt/Edwards ticket?

[sandnsea]

Getphardt has always been strong for unions, 110% against NAFTA & WTO, against deregulation, against privatizing Medicare and social security, and has a health care plan that will really cover everybody. Edwards is strong against corporations and special interests. They're both strong on the environment, civil rights, affirmative action, women's rights, and gay rights. The two of them together are the exact opposite of the Bushies; both come from modest, union families and worked for their success. Neither one could really be called hawks, but they can't be painted liberal doves either. Liberal anything really.

This could really be the ticket to take the Democratic Party back to its union, pro-family roots.

[La_Serpiente]

1. That would be a pretty unbeatable ticket

You have Gephardt with his connection and Edwards with his class and charsima.

[GOPBasher]

2. That's a good ticket.

I like them both, and I'd love to see either one President. But I don't see that ticket winning, really. I think they'd win with public perceptions of a bad economy, but not as it is right now.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Gephardt has liabilities, Edwards is still not that well known

Edwards is only a first term Senator, so he hasn't had many years to make himself known to the American public. This could be a plus for him, I think. Gephardt, however, was a House leader for so many years he has piled up a certain amount of political baggage. His stand by Bush in the Rose Garden makes many Democratic activists view him as part of the "roll over and play dead" opposition that has allowed so many disasterous bills to be passed without too much of a fight. The fact that one of his aides threatened some union people if they campaigned for Dean in MO has left a bad taste in many people's mouths (I listen to a MO NPR station regularly, and have yet to hear if he ever made any statement about this other than that he supports collective bargaining). If anyone has information about him saying anything else about this matter, please post. His response has left me very very uncomfortable.

[JI7]

4. there are some policy differences

such as taxes and health care plans. but i think it can still work. just their common background would connect them in a big way. it can connect the anti nafta democrats such as gephardt with the clinton types who support progressive taxes such as edwards.