Day: January 24, 2008

I Didn’t Want to Waste My Vote So I Voted for John Edwards

Trish

It’s hard to make the case that you’re the grownup of the Democratic party while getting a noogie from David Letterman, but John Edwards does.

Thanks to early voting, I have as of today now cast my ballot for John Edwards three times — in the 2004 primary, the 2004 general (as V.P. of course), and the 2008 presidential preference primary. May the third time be the charm. And while I haven’t talked to a single soul in my area who plans to vote for Clinton or Obama, you’d think from listening to the pundits that I wasted my vote.

The worst thing anyone can say about John Edwards is that he paid too much for a haircut.

As All Things Democrat asked, why are the standards so different for Edwards than for the Republican pack?

The TV talking heads sure seem in a hurry to narrow down the presidential nominee field which seems almost totally exclusive to Democrats, while a few of the piss-poor-showing Republicans, included among them those with big bucks, do not appear to be subjected to the same rush despite their poorer showings.

…what’s strange is that [Edwards has] got at least half the delegates of Obama and Clinton WHILE, where Republicans like Thompson and Giuliani barely have a handful of delegates BETWEEN them, pundits aren’t shouting to push Fred and Rudy off the campaign trail as they are with Edwards. Why? What’s the difference?

Thompson, of course, has since dropped out but the question remains. Are Hillary and Barack really that riveting? Not to me, and the more time goes on, the more I agree with my friend Joe from the credit union. Joe worries that the damage being done by Clinton and Obama to each other now will carry over to the eventual contest against whoever the Republicans pick. At first I disagreed with him but the lower the blows go, the more I see his point.

Hillary’s lackluster service on the Wal-Mart board of directors and Obama’s dubious (or as he calls it, “bone-headed”) 17-year dealings with Chicago developer Tony Rezko won’t go away once the contest goes wide. But the worst thing anyone can say about John Edwards is that he paid too much for a haircut.

Yes, may the third time be the charm.