Looking more and more like a Hillary & Edwards Team

[surfermaw]

What Edwards has, that Hillary needs it the ability to help her pull the White Men in a race against McCain!Otherwise those same votes may go across to the refurb party for McCain....Edwards voters John and his supporters may get what we wanted. John Edwards on the 2008 TICKET

[Tom Strong]

1. Naw, Hillary/Clark, man. That's the winner! Edwards for AG. n/t

[ThatPoetGuy]

16. Can they run together?

They're both from Arkansas, doesn't the Constitution prohibit that?

Or is it ok now that she's "from" New York?

[MonkeyFunk]

17. No

Hillary is a resident of NY. But she's from Illinois, as is Clark, coincidentally. But the constitution doesn't care where you're born - as long as it's in the US.

And the constitution doesn't prohibit it, it just says the electors from that state can't cast their votes. So even if they both lived in Arkansas, they could still run - but electors from Arkansas wouldn't be able to vote for them both.

[question everything]

28. Agree. Wes Clark can provide the "macho" angel

for the men who do not trust women to be "commander in chief."

[OKNancy]

2. what makes you write that?

I haven't heard any buzz in that direction.

[surfermaw]

11. Simple know who has what voters,,

Edwarda took the white men vote, they are a stubborn bunch and really wouldn't want to vote for a woman or black man, if Edwards isn't on the ticket and McCain is on the republican ticket, I see the white men crossing the isle and going with Mccain, after all didn't we get reports that some dem.white men who thought Edwards didn't have a chance, crossed over and voted republican.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. I wouldn't hold my breath. Bet you 10 to 1 it's Biden or Richardson, anyway.

[surfermaw]

13. Biden has his chance, frankly I like him but he puts his foot in his own mouth too often

I don't know enough on Richardson, after all she doesn't need that much help in knowing how to run the government, Edwards can talk the southern talk and men like him.. Unless she comes out of left field with someone it will be John Reid Edwards as V.P.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. I don't have nearly the confidence you seem to that HRC knows what she's doing.

frankly, my fear is she will be a disaster if she gets the nom. I think the most likely scenario whereby the GOP holds on to the WH is a McCain-Hillary race.

But, we shall see. Of course, I will support our nominee whoever he or she is.

I doubt she picks Edwards, though. His anti-corporate rhetoric is likely to rub a lot of her big backers the wrong way (Obama's, too, to be fair) ... and you can't discount the "been there, done that" factor. We've already had a blank-Edwards ticket.

Like I said- if she gets the nom, I bet she picks Biden or Richardson, Richardson not just because of his executive experience but also because of the potential to deliver the West and the Hispanic vote.

Edit: Dude downthread has a point. I would put Vilsack on the short list, too.

If Obama was to get the nod, I might see Edwards being picked for veep, but I'd still put it as less than likely. Personally, I'd like to see him get one of our party's solid fighters, someone like Russ Feingold- but that probably wouldn't gel with Obama's big "unity" thing. So who knows.

That's my Nostradamus act for today.

[femrap]

24. Biden will be Sec'y of Defense

and Richardson, maybe State Dept.

[Miss Chybil]

4. I'm hoping for Clinton/Obama. nt

[femrap]

26. That would be a big mistake...

need to attract others with VP Choice. Edwards would be great. Look at JFK...he picked LBJ and hated him. It was strategic.

[PDittie]

31. White men stay away from that ticket in such numbers that

it's likely a loser.

I am really, really sorry to have to say that.

More to the point, either Clinton or Obama almost certainly pick a silver-haired white guy with some depth of experience -- Clark, Biden, Dodd perhaps (although they could select Bill Richardson and get handily elected).

In terms of surprises both good and bad -- and since it's all just speculation -- if Clinton takes somebody like Tom Vilsack, she flops. Obama could tap, say, Kathleen Sebelius and overcome much of the disappointment of the millions of women who yearn to vote for the first female president. Still a risky play to alienate so many Caucasian male independents. And yes, the not unsubstantial number of bigoted Democrats out there, too.

Moving delicately away from the race and gender card game, I just don't think that Clinton or Obama have any desire to be either's second fiddle. And the dossier of opposition research on both will be so thick that the two of them running together would be a daily spewing fountain of excrement from the Right so thick that we would all be vomiting well before November.

Each one -- whichever one it happens to be -- is going to want, and need, a fresh face.

[alteredstate]

5. Do you really think Edwards would be willing to share the VP slot with Bill? n/t

[surfermaw]

18. Sure...Edwars would love to pick The Clintons brains

Who wouldn't, he has already made it in the every day world,why not go on to learn from the master (William Jefferson Clinton. Bill Clinton spent his entire life studying how to run the government, he studied every president and read every book he could find on the government, heck I thin John and the Big Dog will get along well...Don't you let some of the democrats and the media tell you lies about Bill Clinton, heck in S.C. he knew what was going on and told the nation...and then he was blamed for bringing race into the primary, Obama and his wife brought the race thing in...Big Dog just answered.

[CoffeeCat]

6. I just can't imagine...

Edwards in the Hillary camp.

I see Edwards as a Progressive. I see Hillary very differently.

I also think Edwards clearly saw the kind of campaign that Hillary and Bill ran. I don't
think Bill's "Jesse Jackson won here also" comment really warmed up Edwards to Hillary.

Plus, I cannot imagine Edwards in the vp slot, given the Bill and Hillary team. I think
the dynamics of that would be a complete nightmare. They need a loyal Clinton lackey to
endure that.

I just can't see it at all. Maybe I'm totally wrong.

[99th_Monkey]

7. Obama needs the same thing, doesn't he?

"the ability to help her pull the White Men in a race against McCain"

especially white men from Southern states..

[cali]

8. never ever happen.

dream on. JE brings nothing in electability to a ticket. He's hardly the only white man out there.

[Orangepeel]

9. Looking how? Based on what?

:shrug:

[MissDeeds]

12. My question too

As an Edwards supporter, I'd be surprised to see that happen.

[scheming daemons]

10. Except for the fact that Edwards, and his wife, can't stand the Clintons...

...by all accounts within their campaign.

[Cha]

14. That's the Edwards' I know and love..

the ones who wouldn't compromise their principles to help the marauding clintons.

[surfermaw]

19. Who said so CNN or Fox

[MonkeyFunk]

20. Friendship has nothing to do with choosing a VP

it's purely a political calculation.

[MonkeyFunk]

15. it's not looking at all like a Clinton/Edwards team

good lord, what makes you think that?

He's already run for President twice and lost, and was the VP candidate and lost. And he's said he doesn't want to run for VP again.

No way is Edwards the VP nominee.

[surfermaw]

22. And Clark was a republican then a dem. when the rep.wouldn't give him the time of day

Clark, Richardson,Biden or none other than John Edwards and Hillary togeather can pull the White Men Votes in the coming GE and Bill Clinton is aware of the fact...Don't fool your self no matter what the Media and some democrats on this board say about the Big Dog, there is no one in this nation that knows politics like Clinton, In the south politice is what we are fed three meals a day..This old lady took polls for FDR with her dad and he fed her politics reg... I think I may have gone with my dad to take polls for FDR..we would ride all day from one little country store in Fayette Co.Ga to another he would go in leaving me in the car sit for about 20 minutes come out with a half finished coke , use his pen then on to another store, don't know for sure that was what he was doing but it was during his time, then when the candidates called he could tell them what the county was thinking..So simple back in those days.

[femrap]

27. Becoming Prez in 8 years

might convince him otherwise.

[MonkeyFunk]

30. but it won't convince Clinton to choose him

he adds nothing to a Clinton ticket.

[PassingFair]

21. What. A. Joke.

It will be Bayh or Vilsack or some other DLC
hack who needs payback.

[PDittie]

32. Either of those is

a guaranteed November loser. I have to think that Hillary isn't that stupid.

Biden? I could see that. Dodd? Geez, I would hope. Clark? I could be OK with it. Richardson? I have to think so, even given her strength in the Latino community.

I'm just hoping Hillary isn't the one doing the choosing.

[PassingFair]

35. It will depend on whether or not she need help.

If they figure the slot is hers, you can COUNT
on the VP position going to a DLC sycophant.

If she is fighting for the nomination, who knows,
maybe they will haul Clark out.

[bvar22]

23. No chance.

Edwards has promised to FIGHT Corporate Corruption....NOT join in it with a Hillary DLC administration.

[TexasObserver]

29. John might take AG or SC, but VP to Hillary?

not gonna happen

[BringBigDogBack]

33. Team IWR

[FrenchieCat]

34. Bunch of PR tripe. Hillary ain't hardly about to put John Edwards on her ticket.....

That's like a wet dream that will never happen.

And ya'll know it.

Here's another Hillary supporter talking race as a prime point again.....


Fucking sad.