Archive for 'John Edwards'

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

New Quinnipiac Poll: Rudy Ahead Of All Dems, Leads McCain By 22%

This poll is chock-full of goodness if you’re a Rudy fan like a certain blogger I know:
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani leads Sen. Hillary Clinton 48 - 43 percent among American voters in a 2008 national presidential poll released by Quinnipiac University today. Arizona Sen. John McCain edges Sen. Clinton 46 - 44 […]

15 Comments » - Posted in Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Republican Candidates, 2008 Polls, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Friday, February 16th, 2007

Dan Gerstein Tells The Truth…

…and does it quite well:
If the liberal blogs want to understand why so few people outside their narrow echo chamber take them seriously, and what it will take to gain the broader credibility they crave, they should look no further than their handling of the recent flap over John Edwards’ foul-mouthed blogger hires.
This ugly morality […]

No Comments » - Posted in John Edwards, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

More On Hillary’s Iraq Problem

Hillary Clinton is about to throw this election away; everyone knows she supported the Iraq War: it’s one of her big problems with the Nutroots®. Lately, however, she’s taken to a lame attempt to rewrite history (impossible, in the age of YouTube and Google) by pretending she was against the war all along. This will not […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Iraq, John Edwards, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Monday, February 12th, 2007

Amanda Marcotte Resigns

Remember last week, when Chris Bowers was strutting around like Mick Jagger in his prime talking up his mighty power over the Edwards campaign?
Well, a few short days later, Amanda Marcotte is no longer in the employ of Senator Edwards:
Amanda Marcotte has resigned as the blogger for the presidential campaign of Democrat John Edwards. She […]

42 Comments » - Posted in John Edwards, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Friday, February 9th, 2007

Terry Moran Knocks Another One Out Of The Park

Regarding the vitriol coming his way for labeling Amanda Marcotte’s vile attack on Catholicism ‘hate speech’ (anyone’s irony meter working at this point?), Moran again is right on the money:
First, it seems to me that trashing the sacred beliefs of another person in sexually explicit or scatological terms for the purpose of wounding and delegitimizing […]

16 Comments » - Posted in John Edwards, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, February 8th, 2007

The Religious Left, Marginalized By The Nutroots®

I said I’d post again on the Edwards blogger story only if something interesting comes along.  Well, this qualifies: Catholic voices from the left decrying their marginalization by the Edwards campaign:
As the flap over alleged anti-Catholic writings by two John Edwards campaign bloggers devolves into a shouting match between conservative religious voices and liberal bloggers, […]

22 Comments » - Posted in John Edwards, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, February 8th, 2007

In Other Non-Edwards-Blogger-Related News…

…the Dallas Cowboys have a new coach, the prosecution rested in the Libby trial, and Anna Nicole Smith is dead at 39…
And that’s all I’ve got, I’m worn out from arguing.  I would say that I’m through with the Edwards blogger story, but that depends on if anything new or interesting related to the story […]

1 Comment » - Posted in John Edwards, PlameGate, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, February 8th, 2007

John Edwards: Hostage To Chris Bowers

Doubt that John Edwards caved to the Nutroots®, as I asserted below? Doubt no more:
Both Democrats and the netroots won a big victory today when John Edwards refused to cave into the pressure of a right wing smear job. This was huge in several ways:

The vast majority of established, beltway consultants would have […]

34 Comments » - Posted in John Edwards, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Edwards Caves To The Nutroots®

Well, if you haven’t heard, John Edwards is keeping his bloggers, after Nutroots® bigshots such as Chris Bowers basically threatened to blacklist him if he didn’t.  The statement of the Edwards campaign:
The tone and the sentiment of some of Amanda Marcotte’s and Melissa McEwan’s posts personally offended me. It’s not how I talk to people, […]

20 Comments » - Posted in John Edwards, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Edwards Bloggers Fired, Reports Salon

Jeez, it’s getting to where you can’t be a rabid anti-Catholic extremist and find good work anymore:
The right-wing blogosphere has gotten its scalps — John Edwards has fired the two controversial bloggers he recently hired to do liberal blogger outreach, Salon has learned.
The bloggers, Amanda Marcotte, formerly of Pandagon, and Melissa McEwan, of Shakespeare’s […]

43 Comments » - Posted in John Edwards, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Kudos To Terry Moran

Regarding the Edwards ‘blogger’ flap, Moran (yes, Terry Moran!) is, well, astoundingly on target, in an article entitled, “Does John Edwards Condone Hate Speech?“:
A bit of a tempest is brewing over the strident and profanity-laced writings of John Edwards’ official campaign “blogmaster,” Amanda Marcotte. She joined the Edwards campaign last week, and she’s already gotten […]

8 Comments » - Posted in John Edwards, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

The Jane Hamsher Effect

Regular readers know I keep things pretty clean around here.  It’s a personal preference and a bid for some modicum of professionalism.  Readers of most (not all) big sites on the left know that there are more four-letter words than a Richard Pryor routine in half the posts.  The venom that spews from many of […]

26 Comments » - Posted in John Edwards, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Friday, January 26th, 2007

A Half-Dozen Strong Candidates? The Democrats?

I join Tom Bevan in his amazement at Kevin Drum’s assertion:
[Just Say No] to whatever Kevin Drum was on when he wrote this about 2008:
“…[T]he Republican field is remarkably weak this cycle. Compared to Democrats, who have half a dozen genuinely strong contenders, John McCain (news, bio, voting record) is really the only high-profile candidate […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Bill Richardson, Joe Biden, Al Gore, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Democratic Candidates, Republican Candidates, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Election 2008 by Mark

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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Hillary Still Has Some Work Left To Do

Iowa is not enamored of the frontrunner, according to the latest Strategic Visions poll:
John Edwards 25%
Barack Obama 17%
Tom Vilsack 16%
Hillary Clinton 15%
Wow, Vilsack running ahead? That’s lame…but guess who is leading the Republicans? Yep, you knew it already:
Rudy Giuliani 25%
John McCain 21%
Newt Gingrich 13%
Mitt Romney 8%
Gingrich ahead of Romney? Doesn’t bode well for his candidacy, either…but […]

13 Comments » - Posted in Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Republican Candidates, 2008 Polls, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Clinton Widens Lead Over Obama…

…while Rudy Giuliani remains the public favorite for the GOP:
On the day that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton officially entered the 2008 presidential sweepstakes, a new Washington Post-ABC News survey shows her with a wide lead over her potential Democratic rivals.
Clinton took 41 percent in a hypothetical primary field against 12 other Democrats, far ahead of Sen. Barack […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Al Gore, Newt Gingrich, John Edwards, Sam Brownback, John Kerry, Mitt Romney, 2008 Polls, Republican Candidates, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

A-Ha, So THAT’s Why All The John Edwards Searches Are Heading My Way!

I blogged below about the weird amount of traffic I’m getting (from a most unusual mirror of my site) off of the Google search “John Edwards ‘08″.  Well, it appears that Edwards had to take his website down after an early head start:
Former Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards is running for president for a second […]

1 Comment » - Posted in John Edwards, Navel-Gazing, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Interesting…

…to no one but me, perhaps, but hey, maybe you’ll find it diverting.
I’m getting a lot of traffic today from people looking for info about John Edwards and his ‘08 blog (does such a thing exist? This inquiring mind is not too concerned).  In fact, a Google search for John Edwards ‘08 lands with my […]

3 Comments » - Posted in John Edwards, Navel-Gazing, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Sunday, December 24th, 2006

A Merry Christmas For Hillary and Obama…

…as their poll surge/media blitz continues to pay dividends.  Dan Balz writes in the Washington Post:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), trading on star power, the capacity to raise tens of millions of dollars with relative ease and an ability to dominate media attention, are rewriting the script of the 2008 […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Evan Bayh, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Republican Candidates, 2008 Polls, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Sunday, December 17th, 2006

John Edwards Makes It Official

I don’t think anyone is surprised by the news, but John Edwards is definitely running:
John Edwards, the Democrats’ defeated vice-presidential candidate in 2004, is launching a second run for the White House, bolstered by strong ties to the labour movement and his position as the party’s only serious candidate from the South.
Mr Edwards, […]

4 Comments » - Posted in John Edwards, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

How Do We Love Thee, Rudy G.? Let Us Count The Ways…

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows - guess who - Rudy G. leading the way among Republican candidates.  At some point, the Rudy G. naysayers are going to have to start paying attention, because there are very few polls he hasn’t led in, and John McCain is not a nobody - i.e., it’s not […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Republican Candidates, 2008 Polls, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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