Edwards is the New Kucinich

As the Edwards campaign continued to collapse into the new year, his campaign and his supporters are reminding me more and more of the vanity campaign of Dennis Kucinich.

It seems the cult of personality is just as strong, and its not at all uncommon to see posts extolling the virtues of Edwards as though he was some sort of messiah figure.

The trajectory of his campaign is following a similar path, especially now that Kucinich has dropped out and Edwards continues to turn in miserable showings at the polls. He has yet to win a single state, and it is doubtful that he will.

We are now at a point where Edwards has no path to the nomination and he is merely filling the sideshow void left in the campaign by Kucinich.

I predict that as the primaries slog on, Edwards support will collapse to a point where he no longer meets the 15% threshold in primaries for picking up delegates, and he will run around wasting everyone's time complaining about being excluded from debates ect. The fantasy scenario of Edwards playing kingmaker on a second ballot at the convention is nothing but a fantasy.

As he continues to perform poorly his contributions will dry, up he will be ignored, and he will continue his transformation into a latter day Dennis Kucinich in terms of relevance.

I suppose the only solace I take from the whole scenario is that John Edwards' time as a legitimate political figure is over. He wouldn't be a top tier candidate if he ran again in 2012 or 2016, however I'm sure Kucinich or some other darling of the far left will be right back to fill in the niche.

Mark Penn is the new Lee Atwater, and the Hillbots are every bit as vile as these despicable bastards were.......

Your post ooozes with such graciousness and love.

:eyes:

and the Penn/Atwater comparison is VERY valid
Carville's the new Rove, while we're at it. There's a reason he's married to Matalin.

about poverty, corporate greed and control of our democratic processes, and protecting the middle class in this race. Obviously no one is working hard enough to marginalize him--people like you need to join in as well.

Don't you have a short pier you need to long walk off or something?

:rofl:

But prepare for disappointment.

That is no insult to the people who support these figures but I agree 100% with the original post.

or the new Ralph Nader.

As long as you're coming up with insults that make you look stupid, why not go all the way?

There's a lot of cult of personality around Obama and Clinton also. You don't have to not be winning in order to attract cult followers.

The only solace I can take from this is that John at the very least is going to exert considerable influence at the convention. And his influence will be felt for years to come! And predications regarding his demise are greatly exaggerated!

What's the next step in your school yard games?

such presumption to lecture us about who is matters and who doesn't

He's going to grab any delegates he can and bargain for a timely endorsement.

Nobody's laughing at Edwards. Kucinich, always somewhere there was a snicker or two.

I'm hoping he's our new Attorney General, come January.

In practice his delegates mean very little if the convention isn't split.

As the campaign wears on it is likely that he will not meet the delegate threshold in many states.

Edwards is at the end of his political road, and I say good riddance to bad rubbish.

a school girl for Edwards or Kucinich, but it is perfectly legitimate and respected in many circles around here to state that you will refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton if she is the Democratic nominee.

Screwy world we live in.

take your solace that 'his time' is over, as you'd like to believe, but don't be too disappointed when he continues to work for the poor, the voiceless, the non-corporate interests of America and the world.

what do you have against someone who is clearly trying to do something about real issues? what could you possibly mind about Dennis or Edwards.

sheesh, where do people like you come from?

Get bent.

And I mean that in the nicest way.

What if hillary or Obama don't reach the magic number, seems like JE will have a lot of power.

What the Hell are you?

Thank you for the introduction though.

NEWSFLASH!!!!

This party should be wholeheartedly fucking EMBARASSED that Hillary and Clinton are included in the top three. Not to mention that Obama who is a advocate for ripping off the worker GLOBALLY via corrupt free trade agreements is in there as well.

For years, since Bush got into the whitehouse, this party has done nothing but talk out of it's ass on the Iraq War, Investigations into the BA and these corrupt Free Trade Agreements.

The fact that two of them voted for this war, supported this war and are now the nominee is freaking absurd.

The fact that the other is a free trade whore is the same.

This party is owned by corporate interests and Edwards is a part of that infrastructure. He had a massive pro corporate voting record as a senator.

back in the 60s. But politics has swung so far to the right that even a Goldwater-esque post like the OP's doesn't sound too conservative.

Sad.

i find that is far more interesting than the kennedy`s endorsements.

And I agree-- that is more interesting than Kennedy's endorsement.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/an-endorsement-of-the-mov_b_83478.html
Tom Hayden: An Endorsement of the Movement Barack Obama Leads - Politics on The Huffington Post

My favorite line:

"She is a centrist, and it will be up to social movements to alter the center."

This is what happened in the previous century (in the 30s and 60s), and that's what will need to happen again. No real change ever comes from the top. It always starts at the grassroots and reaches critical mass. If we have the right person at the top, then things change quicker. Otherwise, the fight goes on.

Thanks again! :thumbsup:

I believe Kucinich to be sincere.

He's the next in line for people like you to dismiss as irrelevant, vain, and unimportant. Why bother to hold elections at all? Let's just select the president on the basis of who has the most corporate money and the most support from the already-entrenched Beltway insiders? Yeah, that's real democracy for you.

I don't get it; this is a Progressive Democrat site.

If you despise Progressive Democrats, who you define as "darlings of the far left", then what are you doing here?
:shrug:

I think that either Obama or Clinton would make a wonderful president.

I've never made my distaste for Edwards or Kucinich any secret.

You can leave your personal attacks somewhere else.

If Kucinich could get 1% of the vote in '04, and if the magnified-Kucinich Edwards could get 15% of the vote in '08, progressive populism is on the upswing.

he is an irrelevant distraction.