Edwards/Obama - Obama/Edwards

[Rosco T.]

Could go either way, but my gut tells me it will be one or the other.

[Evergreen Emerald]

1. That would be a shame.

I fear that would spell the end of the general election, if either of them were to win the primary.

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[Evergreen Emerald]

3. why would you say that?

[yourout]

4. Because I think that would be the end of the General Election....for the Republicans.

[Evergreen Emerald]

7. you and I can disagree about who would be a better candidate

but I would certainly not call you a republican because you disagree with me. What the hell has happened to DU?

[yourout]

9. It was meant as a sarcastic comment......not a dig at you personally.

Sorry if I offended you.

[Windy]

14. No, she's a rabid hillary supporter. n/t

[Clark2008]

15. I'm not a Hillary supporter, but I also think that ticket would lose.

Of course, I think any Dem running will lose this year because I'm realistic. We don't have the strongest batch of candidates we've ever had and the front runners leave a lot to be desired.

That said, I'll vote for nearly any Dem in the general, except John Edwards (because I don't trust him any further than I could throw him).

[shadowknows69]

16. Wow, way to have faith in the team

This sucker should be ours to lose. We should be able to run the fuckin Cookie Monster and get a landslide. Hillary to me is our only threat to possibly lose or make it close enough that I have to chew off the rest of my fingernails and have a defibrillator close by. She's too polarizing and people don't want a monarchy in the WH anymore. On both sides of the aisle. If Jeb Bush suddenly ran rethugs and Dems alike would laugh him out of the race.

[cali]

17. actually, when compared to the repuke team

the dems are towering figures. The repukes are fielding the weakest and most flawed group of candidates in memory. Add to that the fact that there's been a large defection of repukes, and growing dem rolls, and, as virtually all analysts on both sides have said, the likelihood of a decisive democratic victory is far greater than what you predict. I think you're overly pessimistic about the dem chances.

[Beaverhausen]

21. Have you seen who the repukes are offering up?

A more sorry bunch of losers I have never seen.

Maybe I'm just an optimist but I think any one of our candidates will handily beat whoever is their nominee.

[HughBeaumont]

23. I'd still would like to go with "who would handily beat them the MOST".

And that would be an Edwards/Obama ticket.

[shadowknows69]

5. What is your winning ticket then?

I'm supporting Edwards right now but I think he could do better than Obama as VP. I don't think John wants to be a VP candidate again so I can't see O/E happening. I wouldn't cry if Barack was VP or won the whole thing assuming he made a good choice for VP.

[Evergreen Emerald]

6. I think they are too lightweight to win the general

Right now they are getting free passes. That will not happen in the general. And they cannot withstand the heat.

Any of the other candidates are stronger than they are.

[shadowknows69]

10. Including Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich? Cool.

I hope Iowa and NH tell that tale. Once again, what is your dream ticket?

[Evergreen Emerald]

11. Dream?

Clinton--Clark

Biden--Clark

[shadowknows69]

13. Biden-Clark I could live with

[MethuenProgressive]

2. I'd rather have a Democrat win.

Why just surrender to Huckabee/McCain?

[HughBeaumont]

18. This is a democrat in your book?

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GC01Df03.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/538674.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/593175.cms

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=911378#912206

Kyl/Lieberman - Y
2001 Bankruptcy Bill - Y
IWR - Y

[MethuenProgressive]

20. Edwards voted Y on two of those, right? So he's 2/3 a Democrat in your book?

That's half baked logic.

[HughBeaumont]

22. He's since apologized for his misguided vote. And your girl?

The kicker, however, is her unapologetic free trade stance, which she still defends as a positive for the middle and working class. Despite the fact that the practice usually lifts the working classes overseas from abject squalor to just above broke at the expense of American jobs; all while making the wealthy of both nations hand over fist. Yeah, good luck winning job-starved Ohio with that rhetoric.

He doesn't support job offshoring or doing business with Indian outsourcing companies either.

Hillary divides the left and center on issues that matter. Surely even you can see that . . .

[MethuenProgressive]

25. Bill Richardson is a boy.

But that doesn't disqualify me from calling BullShit on BullShit posts, does it?

[Odin2005]

8. Those are my "dream" tickets. n/t.

[GTurck]

12. My choice exactly..

Edwards/Obama. Edwards has strong resonance with this grandmother for his stance on health, education and respect for working people. Obama appeals because I think we need to open the political arena more and have a VP who represents the largest and to date most disrespected group in the U.S. I like all the Democrats but really don't want to see another Clinton in the office and therefore lock in a precedent of nepotism and dynastic inheritance to the office of the president. One of the greatest ideas that we got from the Founders was that the presidency was an office to aspire to not a position to inherit. We desperately need people who believe that American works best when all are working together.

[HughBeaumont]

19. I'm perfectly fine with either one.

Positive outcomes for both. You'd have a greater chance of winning Ohio and Florida with that ticket than you would with the "done deal" choice. It's still early.

[alfredo]

24. I think they should do the unity ticket strategy. Pick Hagel as veep.

That will take the moderate Republicans away from the Greedy old party.