Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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..

(Excerpt) Read more at wonkette.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: ambulancechaser; edwards; kerry; kerryconcession; obstructionism; rats; slickeddie; thunderthighs
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-5051-79 next last
Could be the liberal media covering for Lurch boy again, but still amusing nonetheless ..
1 posted on 11/03/2004 9:34:40 AM PST by gopwinsin04
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: gopwinsin04

There's probably a bit of truth to that...Kerry, at least, has a pretty sweet job to return to...


2 posted on 11/03/2004 9:36:45 AM PST by danneskjold (Concession...It's the classy way to surrender...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gopwinsin04
That's right John Edwards, you now have lots of free time to spend with your old lady. Enjoy!
3 posted on 11/03/2004 9:37:33 AM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gopwinsin04

Dopey is on the way!


4 posted on 11/03/2004 9:38:46 AM PST by RexBeach
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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


5 posted on 11/03/2004 9:38:58 AM PST by Moose4 (Tomorrow, we move forward. Today, we gloat our butts off.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pukin Dog

What's wrong with analyzing all the numbers till noon today?


6 posted on 11/03/2004 9:39:01 AM PST by swatter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

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.

7 posted on 11/03/2004 9:39:35 AM PST by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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!

8 posted on 11/03/2004 9:39:45 AM PST by Tacis ("Thank God For The Swift Boat Vets And O'Neill!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Moose4

LMAO! Would you like fries with that?


9 posted on 11/03/2004 9:39:50 AM PST by gopwinsin04
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: gopwinsin04

And the blame game begins. Wonder who Kerry will blame at noon central.


10 posted on 11/03/2004 9:40:04 AM PST by sarasota
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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.
11 posted on 11/03/2004 9:40:08 AM PST by PrtzlLogic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

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.


12 posted on 11/03/2004 9:40:17 AM PST by Aetius
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gopwinsin04
Of course he wanted to drag this out!


He needs more time to get back into shape to chase those ambulances!!!
13 posted on 11/03/2004 9:40:21 AM PST by Mr. Jazzy (Kerry broke the faith, pure and simple.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pukin Dog

Jonnie was waiting for his wife to tell him what to say, but she was busy eating donuts.


14 posted on 11/03/2004 9:40:36 AM PST by chiefqc
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

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?


15 posted on 11/03/2004 9:40:51 AM PST by JohnG45
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gopwinsin04

(Ms. Kaiser Sose): "Listen, Bleach-boy, disappear
or I'll have just three words for you.
"


16 posted on 11/03/2004 9:41:08 AM PST by Diogenesis (Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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


17 posted on 11/03/2004 9:41:25 AM PST by Chevy34
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sarasota

I'll be monitoring his speech and the blogs reaction for more 'comedy gold..'


18 posted on 11/03/2004 9:41:26 AM PST by gopwinsin04
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: gopwinsin04

Edwards has a good future as a runway model.


19 posted on 11/03/2004 9:41:30 AM PST by Mount Athos
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gopwinsin04

Edwards thought he was back at his old law firm, and he was billing clients by the hour.


20 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.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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!


21 posted on 11/03/2004 9:42:27 AM PST by Larry Lucido
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

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.


22 posted on 11/03/2004 9:42:37 AM PST by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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.


23 posted on 11/03/2004 9:42:38 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights (GIVE PRESIDENT BUSH HIS MANDATE--VOTE!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gopwinsin04

Once an ambulance chasing bastard, always an ambulance chasing bastard...(my apologies to bastards everywhere!!!)


24 posted on 11/03/2004 9:43:05 AM PST by wireman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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,,,"

25 posted on 11/03/2004 9:43:13 AM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: gopwinsin04

Please ping me if you post anything!


26 posted on 11/03/2004 9:44:09 AM PST by sarasota
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

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.

27 posted on 11/03/2004 9:44:59 AM PST by Wyatt's Torch
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RightField

I was still thinking Lurch was going to withdraw his concession talks until Bush gave him a deadline..


28 posted on 11/03/2004 9:45:31 AM PST by gopwinsin04
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

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.


29 posted on 11/03/2004 9:46:04 AM PST by Area51 (Diapers and Politicians need to be changed-For the same reason)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Larry Lucido
Well, ya gotta admit, that WOULD cause shrinkage!

Yes, but even Hillary's pantsuits do not emit light.

30 posted on 11/03/2004 9:46:13 AM PST by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: gopwinsin04

That just confirms that if you keep the trial lawyers away, the issues can be much more quickly resolved.


31 posted on 11/03/2004 9:46:55 AM PST by Real Cynic No More ( Kerry <i>was</i> the Hanoi candidate - now proven!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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
32 posted on 11/03/2004 9:46:59 AM PST by AuburnMan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

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.


33 posted on 11/03/2004 9:47:23 AM PST by CriticalJ
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Wyatt's Torch; All

Can't you just picture Kerry smacking Silky Pony in the head!


34 posted on 11/03/2004 9:47:44 AM PST by newbie_doobie_doo (What's a tagline?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

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...

35 posted on 11/03/2004 9:48:27 AM PST by gridlock (FOUR MORE YEARS!!!! FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RightField
........sigh.....

grieve=grief

just too excited to proofread here

36 posted on 11/03/2004 9:49:51 AM PST by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

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...)


37 posted on 11/03/2004 9:50:14 AM PST by ctdonath2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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.
38 posted on 11/03/2004 9:50:27 AM PST by Heartland Mom (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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.

39 posted on 11/03/2004 9:51:15 AM PST by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Chevy34
Did you see him crying last night in front of the crowd? LOL

Ya 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.

40 posted on 11/03/2004 9:51:32 AM PST by Jhensy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: ctdonath2

When the margin of victory exceeds the provisional ballot count, I think it qualifies..


41 posted on 11/03/2004 9:52:53 AM PST by gopwinsin04
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: Tacis
"I understand "Kerry," but who is this guy "Edwards" you are talking about?"

Edwards was the Dim with the compulsive hair fettish...
42 posted on 11/03/2004 9:54:17 AM PST by Skywarner (Enjoying freedom? Thank a Veteran!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: AuburnMan
LOL! Very tactfully put :~)

sw

43 posted on 11/03/2004 9:55:52 AM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Pukin Dog

Wendy's is open late.


44 posted on 11/03/2004 9:59:36 AM PST by Crawdad (Take a camera to the polls.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

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.

45 posted on 11/03/2004 10:06:11 AM PST by Shermy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sarasota

The blood bath is starting with the dumb-o-crats eating one another.


46 posted on 11/03/2004 10:06:18 AM PST by chiefqc
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Shermy

Keeps Lurch boy viable for 2008 as well..


47 posted on 11/03/2004 10:11:24 AM PST by gopwinsin04
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: swatter

What, are they going to magically change??


48 posted on 11/03/2004 10:12:14 AM PST by Guillermo (OJ is innocent because Mark Fuhrman said the "N" word.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: gopwinsin04
"...the blinding glare of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's pantsuits..."

That word picture is too much for me. I feel sick.

Cordially,

49 posted on 11/03/2004 10:12:48 AM PST by Diamond
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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.


50 posted on 11/03/2004 10:13:48 AM PST by MaryJaneNC
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-5051-79 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson