NYT, Nagourney: From Rivals to Running Mates to Rivals (Kerry and Edwards)

[DeepModem Mom]

From Rivals to Running Mates to Rivals
By ADAM NAGOURNEY

Published: March 16, 2005


WASHINGTON, March 15 - John Kerry and John Edwards, rivals turned running mates in the last presidential campaign, have become rivals once again, assembling competing political networks, jostling for attention and staking out ideological turf in preparation for a potential rematch in 2008.

Mr. Kerry, the Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential candidate last year, spent this past weekend on what aides described as a "thank you" tour through Florida, visiting some of the same cities that Mr. Edwards, the former North Carolina senator and vice-presidential candidate, did on his own "thank you" tour of Florida two weeks ago.

Mr. Kerry spoke to students at a school in Atlanta on Monday, spotlighting what aides said would become a defining issue for him in the Senate and across the country: providing health care coverage for all children. Mr. Edwards will meet with low-income workers in Los Angeles on Wednesday to talk about fighting poverty, the issue he has embraced since leaving the Senate.

Part of Mr. Edwards's visit is a fund-raising trip for his political action committee, which he reactivated last month, just as Mr. Kerry was creating a committee of his own.

At the same time, Mr. Edwards has begun criticizing major tactical decisions of the Kerry-Edwards campaign last year, saying he disagreed with them at the time. Mr. Kerry's campaign advisers disputed those recollections, and described Mr. Kerry as irritated by what appeared to be a calculated effort by Mr. Edwards to distance himself from the losing campaign....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/16/politics/16dems.html

[blm]

1. I expect Nagourney to maximize differences and minimize closeness

between Kerry and Edwards.

He's been one of Rove's KoolKidz for 5 years, he's not about to stop. Karl has a permanent GOP majority to achieve and needs all his Kidz to make it happen.

[KittyWampus]

2. Gee, A Mediawhore Trying To Divide Democrats. Wonder How Many

DU'ers will attempt to use this to trash either of these two great gentlemen.

Edit- Oh, and Kerry's campaign would have won if ALL THE VOTES HAD BEEN CAST AND COUNTED!

[wildmanj]

3. if

if i remember correctly--kerry said that he would be there fighting until the last vote was counted

[AP]

4. I can't wait for Adam to write about this in his diary.

http://www.adamnagourney.com/

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Thanks for the reminder, AP! nt

[Voltaire99]

6. Kerry in 2008!

Checking parking meters, that is.