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Sen. John Edwards Blamed for Drawing Out of Kerry Concession Talks
Wonkette ^
| 11/04/04
| Ana Cox
Posted on 11/03/2004 9:34:40 AM PST by gopwinsin04
Edwards sure doesnt like being seen in the reaverview mirror..
'What took Kerry so long,' all the pundits have been asking.
Well, we hear for all of his Lurch like slugishness, the real stick in the mud was John Edwards, who didn't want to concede.
Presumably, he sees his politcal future now shrinking into the blinding glare of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's pantsuits..
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: ambulancechaser; edwards; kerry; kerryconcession; obstructionism; rats; slickeddie; thunderthighs
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Could be the liberal media covering for Lurch boy again, but still amusing nonetheless ..
To: gopwinsin04
There's probably a bit of truth to that...Kerry, at least, has a pretty sweet job to return to...
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:36:45 AM PST
by
danneskjold
(Concession...It's the classy way to surrender...)
To: gopwinsin04
That's right John Edwards, you now have lots of free time to spend with your old lady. Enjoy!
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:37:33 AM PST
by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: gopwinsin04
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:38:46 AM PST
by
RexBeach
To: gopwinsin04
"I'm John Edwards, welcome to Wendy's. Would you like to try our Junior Bacon Cheeseburger?"
I'm sure that Skankette is feeling pretty down today...
}:-)4
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:38:58 AM PST
by
Moose4
(Tomorrow, we move forward. Today, we gloat our butts off.)
To: Pukin Dog
What's wrong with analyzing all the numbers till noon today?
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:39:01 AM PST
by
swatter
To: gopwinsin04
he sees his politcal future now shrinking into the blinding glare of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's pantsuits.. I'll overlook the mixed metaphor and just agree with the sentiment.
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:39:35 AM PST
by
Maceman
(Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
To: gopwinsin04
I understand "Kerry," but who is this guy "Edwards" you are talking about?
You gotta feel sorry for him, no more of that sweet young, impressionable young Washington stuff and nothing but pig lady until the divorce!
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:39:45 AM PST
by
Tacis
("Thank God For The Swift Boat Vets And O'Neill!")
To: Moose4
LMAO! Would you like fries with that?
To: gopwinsin04
And the blame game begins. Wonder who Kerry will blame at noon central.
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:40:04 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: danneskjold
There's probably a bit of truth to that...Kerry, at least, has a pretty sweet job to return to...
Yeah, Edwards has nothing left but to write some hokey book with a title like "What I Learned During My Vast Political Career" -- and the talk-show circuit.
To: gopwinsin04
I wonder if he will move out of NC?
The seat he gave up was taken by the GOP, and he knows he probably would have gotten beaten just as badly if not more so. He failed to even diminish Bush's margin in NC; it was 13 points again.
His values are more more intune with the Northeast.
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:40:17 AM PST
by
Aetius
To: gopwinsin04
Of course he wanted to drag this out!
He needs more time to get back into shape to chase those ambulances!!!
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:40:21 AM PST
by
Mr. Jazzy
(Kerry broke the faith, pure and simple.)
To: Pukin Dog
Jonnie was waiting for his wife to tell him what to say, but she was busy eating donuts.
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:40:36 AM PST
by
chiefqc
To: gopwinsin04
"... shrinking into the blinding glare of Senator Hillary Clinton's pantsuits."
Didn't you mean the HUGE SHADOW cast by Hillary Clinton's pantsuits?
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:40:51 AM PST
by
JohnG45
To: gopwinsin04

(Ms. Kaiser Sose): "Listen, Bleach-boy, disappear
or I'll have just three words for you."
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:41:08 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.)
To: gopwinsin04
"I just can't stand losing! I'm a sore loser!"
Did you see him crying last night in front of the crowd? LOL
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:41:25 AM PST
by
Chevy34
To: sarasota
I'll be monitoring his speech and the blogs reaction for more 'comedy gold..'
To: gopwinsin04
Edwards has a good future as a runway model.
To: gopwinsin04
Edwards thought he was back at his old law firm, and he was billing clients by the hour.
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:42:24 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(I made enough money to buy Miami -- but I pissed it away on the Alternative Minimum Tax.)
To: Maceman
"he sees his politcal future now shrinking into the blinding glare of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's pantsuits.. "
"I'll overlook the mixed metaphor and just agree with the sentiment."
Well, ya gotta admit, that WOULD cause shrinkage!
To: gopwinsin04
Scary, actually. Kind of a hint at how Lurch would have dealt with REAL crises as President. Hesitation. Waffling. Doing what's best for HIM. We were spared more grieve that we can even imagine right now.
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:42:37 AM PST
by
RightField
(The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
To: gopwinsin04
Sort of reinforces my idea that Edwards speaking to the crowd last night was on his own initiative. I thought maybe because kerry was in decompression. Probably has more to do with Edwards being an opportunist.
To: gopwinsin04
Once an ambulance chasing bastard, always an ambulance chasing bastard...(my apologies to bastards everywhere!!!)
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:43:05 AM PST
by
wireman
To: swatter
What's wrong with analyzing all the numbers till noon today? "14,125, 14,126, 14,127..."
"Hey, John, let's not concede yet"
"Jeez, Breck Boy! 1, 2, 3, 4,,,"
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:43:13 AM PST
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: gopwinsin04
Please ping me if you post anything!
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:44:09 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: gopwinsin04
Edwards has no where to go except back to North Carolina who didn't want him anyway....paraphrasing Jonah Goldberg all over NRO's Corner today:
John Edwards...sucks to be you.
To: RightField
I was still thinking Lurch was going to withdraw his concession talks until Bush gave him a deadline..
To: gopwinsin04
Ah BS, Has Kerry EVER admitted anything?
Another deflection of critcism by the Kerry camp.
He's the Presidential Candidate, HE makes the decision.
Unless he needed a Life line and Called Chirac for imput.
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:46:04 AM PST
by
Area51
(Diapers and Politicians need to be changed-For the same reason)
To: Larry Lucido
Well, ya gotta admit, that WOULD cause shrinkage! Yes, but even Hillary's pantsuits do not emit light.
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:46:13 AM PST
by
Maceman
(Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
To: gopwinsin04
That just confirms that if you keep the trial lawyers away, the issues can be much more quickly resolved.
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:46:55 AM PST
by
Real Cynic No More
( Kerry <i>was</i> the Hanoi candidate - now proven!)
To: Pukin Dog
And with his wife there is just so much to enjoy. I have heard, and read, her comments for many months now, and through all of this I never quite got a true sense of who she really was. However, now that I have actually seen her speak (on television), it is apparent to me that she is a very well rounded person. She just has such an enormous stage presence
To: PrtzlLogic
"
Yeah, Edwards has nothing left but to write some hokey book with a title like "What I Learned During My Vast Political Career" -- and the talk-show circuit."
Maybe he can get a Sunday morning talk show that will allow him to bash conservatives.
To: Wyatt's Torch; All
Can't you just picture Kerry smacking Silky Pony in the head!
To: gopwinsin04
Kerry still has some political viability. He will be the presumptive nominee in 2008, and much bloviation on FR to the contrary, will easily dispatch
Hillary! in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Edwards, however, is on a one-way train to electoral oblivion. His home state will not have him back and there is no place for him in Washington. He won't even be able to go back to the courtroom, because every jury will have at least a few 'Pubbies with long memories...
Edwards might as well buy and island and retire...
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:48:27 AM PST
by
gridlock
(FOUR MORE YEARS!!!! FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!)
To: RightField
........sigh.....
grieve=grief
just too excited to proofread here
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:49:51 AM PST
by
RightField
(The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
To: gopwinsin04
Conceding the next day is hardly "drawing it out".
Upon my leaving for work this morning both were still under 270 EVs, and yet Kerry called Bush before lunch. That's pretty darn prompt.
(Funny, DU types discounted Kerry's flip-flops, yet are now stunned that he's not following thru on his vow to "fight for every vote"...they figured it out a bit late, eh...)
To: gopwinsin04
You know this would have been happening ad infinitum had sKerry been elected - someone else would have been calling the shots because he is incapable of making a decision on anything.
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:50:27 AM PST
by
Heartland Mom
(My heroes have always been cowboys.)
To: gridlock
Hey, he could send out the little woman to do some "real work." I hear she's an attorney, too.
Oh wait, there is no little woman in the life.
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:51:15 AM PST
by
RightField
(The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
To: Chevy34
Did you see him crying last night in front of the crowd? LOLYa know, I actually thought we saw something cold, sinister, Machiavellian... totally unlike the 'gracious' silky pony lightweight we'd been led to believe.
It creeped me out... he looked like that grown-up Damien who takes over the White House in The Omen.
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:51:32 AM PST
by
Jhensy
To: ctdonath2
When the margin of victory exceeds the provisional ballot count, I think it qualifies..
To: Tacis
"I understand "Kerry," but who is this guy "Edwards" you are talking about?"
Edwards was the Dim with the compulsive hair fettish...
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:54:17 AM PST
by
Skywarner
(Enjoying freedom? Thank a Veteran!)
To: AuburnMan
LOL! Very tactfully put :~)
sw
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:55:52 AM PST
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife)
To: Pukin Dog
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posted on
11/03/2004 9:59:36 AM PST
by
Crawdad
(Take a camera to the polls.)
To: gopwinsin04
Well, we hear for all of his Lurch like slugishness, the real stick in the mud was John Edwards, who didn't want to concede. Sound like Kerry disinfo. Fits the pattern of blaming others. And so what if someone wanted to wait, I have no problem with that.
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posted on
11/03/2004 10:06:11 AM PST
by
Shermy
To: sarasota
The blood bath is starting with the dumb-o-crats eating one another.
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posted on
11/03/2004 10:06:18 AM PST
by
chiefqc
To: Shermy
Keeps Lurch boy viable for 2008 as well..
To: swatter
What, are they going to magically change??
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posted on
11/03/2004 10:12:14 AM PST
by
Guillermo
(OJ is innocent because Mark Fuhrman said the "N" word.)
To: gopwinsin04
"...the blinding glare of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's pantsuits..."That word picture is too much for me. I feel sick.
Cordially,
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posted on
11/03/2004 10:12:48 AM PST
by
Diamond
To: Pukin Dog
Yes, and the pundits will say Kerry's biggest mistake was choosing Edwards...he did nothing for Kerry. Normally a southerner would help the ticket, but one has to choose a moderate southerner to gain votes in the South...not a liberal trial lawyer who could not get re-elected in his own state.
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