Tim Blair

Gephardt the mighty,
He's very tidy,

Kerry chose McCain before he chose Gephardt.

Oh, sweet, neat, petite! Kerry/Gephardt! Cue the Addams Family music! Pass the eyebrows!

Gerphardt would be the logical choice. Kerry needed a veep candidate whose personality wouldn't overshadow him.

http://www.usaviation.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11966

Edwards?

Oh, now I don't know who to believe!

Regular spectators at England cricket matches will know that the Barmy Army (England supporters)have a favourite chant that goes (in part):
WE ARE THE ENGLISH!
THE MIGHTY, MIGHTY ENGLISH!

This is usually followed by either a batting collapse or the bowlers getting a flogging (depending on what the English are doing at the time). Needless to say, it's the English batsmen that collapse, and the English bowlers that get flogged.

The Gephart supporters are channelling the Barmy Army! Here's hoping that their chant has the same effect on the fortunes of their team that the Barmy Army has on theirs.

Save your songs, it's Edwards....

AP says it's Edwards.

Personally, I think it shoulda been Lieberman. On the bright side, at least it's not Dean or Clark.

Had the Gephardt news been true, it would have actually been the most positive thing I'd heard about Kerry to date.

Which, in and of itself, was a big hint that there was nothing to the rumours.

He's picked Edwards - a patronising, substance-free pretty boy who has about as much experience with national security as Kerry does with the working class.

Kerry should have spoken to the Australian Labor Party before making this decision. Based on the experience of the past few days, they'd be able to tell him exactly where a condescending attitude and a lack of substance lead.

Edwards didn't win his own state in the Primaries, I don't know what he will bring. Democrats seem to love him, but they were pumped up to vote against Bush from 4 years ago.

So will Edwards pretty boy energetic style compliment Kerry or highlight what a boring elitist turd he is?

WE ARE THE EDWARDS!
MIGHTY MIGHTY EDWARDS!

I dunno, I think it is just missing something.

KERRY LIED! TORT REFORM DIED!

I am very happy about this!!

John Edwards = Dan Quail!

Kerry claims to support US-Australia FTA. Edwards does not. Shall be interesting...

Maybe they could do:
WE ARE THE GERBILS
THE MIGHTY MIGHTY GERBILS!

(Or some baseball-type chants: "We want a hamster! Not a Zionist master!" Perfect for the DU crowd.)

Kerry can’t honestly say that Edwards is the Dem whom he’d most like to see replace him if necessary. According to the NYT July 2, 2004 in “Will It Be a Match Made in a Political Foxhole? A Cradle Robbing? A Twin?”, Kerry said during the primaries that if he weren’t running he’d support Gephardt—& Edwards was among the candidates at the time. Same article says Kerry said just before the Iowa caucuses:

“In the Senate four years, and that is the full extent of public life - no international experience, no military experience - you can imagine what the advertising is going to be next year.”

And this:

“When I came back from Vietnam in 1969, I don’t know if John Edwards was out of diapers then. Well, I’m sure he was out of diapers.”

The same article reports Governor Vilsack said the following, which now sounds prophetic, once properly understood:

“This is not always about reinforcing, it’s about marriage,” Mr. Vilsack said in an interview. “You don’t marry somebody that's exactly like you. Hopefully, you end up with somebody that fulfills you, that completes the jigsaw puzzle of your life.”

Kerry always marries rich.

Edwards, huh? Too bad it's not Gephardt....that would have been fun to watch!

Now we get to watch Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, two Democrats beating a drum.

Wouldn't it be more fun to chant "We are the Dicks!" The mighty, mighty DICKS!"

Our assistant leaders must be pretty and rich! Now the moonbat sluts will swoon right out of their pants for Bills party.

The stewardship of the global economic recovery is secure!

If we can't all marry money, then we'll sue ourselves to prosperity!

Figures, just when I had hoped he may go back to chasing ambulances.

Oh boy. What a choice - Dick "Dick" Gephardt, a man so boring he makes Pat Paulson look like Mr. Personality, or John Edwards, Pretty Boy Trial Lawyer and International Psychic Phenomenon...

I'll tale Bush for $200, Alex.

Hmmmmm...

What do I get the feeling that this choice was not completely unexpected in the other camp?

http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?id=4345

Tim old shoe, you can attack Pretty Boy Edwards without mocking 1) his Southern accent or b) North Carolina, the hippie/Yankee retirement home precincts of Asheville aside, is about as red-blooded Red America as can be imagined. The good country folk of North Carolina are on the Right Side, lad. Save your wonderful venom for the deserving.

From Tim's Bulletin article on Edwards:

Apparently Edwards believes us to be some kind of Third World hell-zone, where blinded, paralysed children grope through a toxic haze for the sharpened rocks they use to make ugh boots and Kylie CDs.

Tim old shoe, you can attack Pretty Boy Edwards without mocking 1) his Southern accent or b) North Carolina, the hippie/Yankee retirement home precincts of Asheville aside, is about as red-blooded Red America as can be imagined. The good country folk of North Carolina are on the Right Side, lad. Save your wonderful venom for the deserving.
Huh? This being the same state that Edwards in the senate? More RINO than anything else, since they sure tax and spend like Dems here. Then we have Morgan, who flips a coin each morning to decide which party he will be in that day.

Asheville (San Fran of the South) isn't the only
enclave here, you forgot the Peoples Democratic Republic of Chapel Hill, highest income tax in the south, the clowns that run the circus in Charlotte (Thank God I don't live in Mecklenberg county, just work there), I could go on. Here I was hoping to be done with Edwards, but now I gotta see/hear him for a few more months......

Can't wait to hear more of Edwards' "two Americas" shtick...just what the Dems need right now, more "those rich guys and their corporations are the cause of all our problems" talk.

Gotta say one thing about Edwards, he's an energetic speaker...but what he said during the primaries reminded me of borderline Socialist propaganda on more than one occasion. Rather nauseating, actually. I know he was running to the left during the primaries, but I have little doubt that his strident anti-free trade/anti-business rhetoric was pretty close to what he actually believes.

Crusader -- I was referring to the rural areas ("good country folk") not the bolsheviks in Asheville or the libs in Chapel Hill. Whatever the case, my main point was that our lad Tim doesn't need to mock Southern accents.

Whatever the case, my main point was that our lad Tim doesn't need to mock Southern accents.

Understood, but even the locals here make fun of their own accents. Not something to get worked up about. Heck, I kid with them that I am part of the occupation force (I'm from NJ, and that "Southern Culture" is an oxymoron. And Edwards has more of a Southern Lawyers accent than anything else. He'd stick out like a sore thumb among the native locals I know.

Edwards adds nothing but relief from snoozeville!

The Dems took an old, grey French Poodle, bought it a new collar, put a nice blaze orange vest on it and set it out in the wheat scrub - anyone but the liberals know that dog ain't gonna hunt!

We’ll see what the instant polls say, but it seems to me that Kerry may have blown any chance he might have had to win Edwards’ state North Carolina.

Instapundit is highlighting an e-mail that guesses that Bush will unilaterally crush this veep buzz by announcing Rice as his running mate. God willing it comes true.

So perhaps you'll get your wish, after all. :)

Personally, my biggest fantasy is Rice in 2008. Goosebumps!

And the Dems, eager to defend their home turf with the Black community and the women's movement, would most likely respond by nominating...Carol Moseley-Braun? Or perhaps Hillary with veep candidate Al Sharpton...

Oh James, don't be such a Deltaville Sissyballs.

They can nominate who ever the heck they want, just like this year. And just like this year, it will be to their embarassment. What would Sharpton say in the debates to Rice, I wonder? Nah, I don't want to think about it, it would probably be offensively stupid.

Kerry must be looking for the crossover vote...

LOL