Edwards vs Bush

[funky_bug]

Poll question: Edwards vs Bush

In the interest of fairness...

The election is today. Who gets your vote?

[dobak]

1. Edwards is my #2 - n/t

[Closer]

2. ..

[Kathleen04]

3. Edwards

:)

[bigwillq]

4. Who is voting for Shrub?

I'll take Edwards any old day. I really think Edwards could be him. Though I hope it's Dean who's beating chimp.

[Exgeneral]

5. That looks like the Freeper gauge to me

The types that can't brngs themselves to vote against him for fear that it will be on their permanent record.

[RaRa]

6. No doubt

Jeeze, I LIKE Edwards (even if he isn't my #1 choice). But, come ON - *? Like I've said many times before, I'd vote for Jesse Helms, even a dead chicken before I'd vote for this piece of excrement. (And I really hate Jesse Helms.)

[AntiCoup2K4]

8. Are you saying RimJob tracks the movements of his disruptors?

And if they voted for a Democrat, even undercover, they would be forever banished from Freeperville?

[bearfartinthewoods]

18. there is always a constant bush vote from the freeps

it's the high point of their lives...to get to vote for bush at DU......

[Jerseycoa]

7. Edwards nt

[MODemocrat]

9. I'd vote for Edwards in a heart beat

Can't help but think what a handsome pair Edwards and Clark would be.
It's not fair we can only choose one person when we have so may great candidates.

:hi: :grouphug:

[funky_bug]

12. You're right!

Clark/Edwards... presidential and cute to boot.

That's your second post on how handsome Clark is. Are you sure you're not ready to change your avatar? LOL

All in fun... all in fun. Maybe the BEST (and not necessarily the best looking) candidate win!

[texasmom]

13. I know!

This is really a great slate of candidates. I think in all the tension and arguing we forget what a qualified, inspirational group they are as a whole. It's been a dispiriting and bleak three years, and we're lucky they're running and that we have good people to choose from.

[bookman]

10. There's a big list..

..of people I'd vote for before Bush.

Edwards would be in my top 3-5.

[texasmom]

11. I really like Edwards

I saw him the other night on C-Span in Iowa and was very impressed.

I really like how he has continued along with his campaign, refining his message, staying positive. He's like a breath of fresh air, and I'm happy that he's picking up some of the undecideds. I hope he does well in Iowa.

[jsw_81]

14. Edwards!

And not only would I vote for him, but I'd actively campaign for him.

[saltpoint]

15. I voted 'Edwards' --

-- Edwards' detractors claim he has little experience, but Dubya didn't have much either. The difference is that Edwards is inherently decent and brainy. Bush is neither, or at least there's no evidence to support either compassion or intelligence. Bush's smirking ridicule of a Texas woman's execution was an abomination. It is one of hundreds of things that prove he should be nowhere near power.

If your poll is the poll I'm looking at in November, Senator Edwards gets my vote and my scorn for the incumbent will be ten months stronger.

Go Democrats!

[Crunchy Frog]

16. I'd be happy to support Edwards

He's currently in my #3 spot. I think he's a fundamentally decent guy, and I've really gotten to like him.

[Bread and Roses]

17. I agree with the crunchy frog!

Edwards is my #3 and I'd actively campaign for him.

[KittyWampus]

19. Would Vote For Edwards But He Won't Be The Nominee.

[arewethereyet]

20. I guess we'll see but I would not assume he can't be the guy

he's beaten the odds and amazed people his entire life.

[webkev]

21. I really think Edwards is great too

nt

[PurityOfEssence]

22. He has the best chance against Junior, period.

They're terrified of this guy, and in the general election, he has virtually no negatives. They'll try to paint him as responsible for the rising cost of health care, but it won't stick, and in light of his health proposals, it may well backfire resoundingly.

He has an extremely good "feel", and for the facile, he's a very reassuring and magnetic person. Among the hue and cry, I rarely hear anyone like him less after their first exposure to him in a debate or town hall setting.

I'm a partisan for him, and have been for a very long time, so please understand the enthusiasm that many of us have at the moment.

This guy is truly honorable and decent, and he is a healer; he can do more to shepherd our re-entry into the world community after the unilateral bullying of late.

The calculus of his appeal is daunting: as he says: "I can beat George Bush everywhere". This is VERY important. Any advocacy of a Dean of Kerry candidacy has to make apologies for or spin on prospects for the South, and that's just not an issue with Edwards.

He's also a truly morally decent person, and his message is premised upon the system being inherently good, just off track at the moment. That kind of message has traditionally been very powerful in Presidential politics, and this guy walks the talk. Top this off with a stunning rhetorical ability and the ultimate gift in American politics: personal control and shocking intelligence THAT DOESN'T DRAW ATTENTION TO ITSELF. The guy's flat-brilliant, and in complete personal control of his emotions, yet he comes off as nonthreatening and very comfortable. He looks and feels very comfortable with himself, and he has an endearing ability to allow himself to look a little clunky; a debate with Junior would be more devastating than Kennedy's was to Nixon.

Try to calmly look at this guy with these thoughts in mind. He is the most able to win a general election of them all, and by quite a margin. I also truly like and respect him, irrespective of that.

[spooky3]

23. so eloquently expressed! Thanks.