The thing about John Edwards is that he is an open invitation for the Republicans to shimmy about shrieking "he has no foreign policy experience, no domestic security chops, he has never killed a man with his bare hands and ripped out his thymus gland with his teeth!" or whatever it takes to subtly imply that America will not be a safer place if those dudes are elected. And this claim will be true even if the implication is false, and it will be particularly true in the nice parts of Ohio. And so John Kerry will have no choice but to point out that he himself is a big bad fella, a real fucking security hero, that he has, in fact, chewed uponst the thymus gland of a Laotian teenager to make this world a safer place. The more he runs with John Edwards, the more he will have to say these things. And should he be elected, he will have to back all those speeches up, so as to be a man of his word, so as to be eligible for re-election.
John Edwards is very cute by the standards of the legal profession; he is also the Vice Presidential candidate who gets the U.S. out of Iraq the slowest and the least.
Posted by jane at July 8, 2004 06:20 AM | TrackBack