Let's look at what the public thinks about Edwards 4 VP--

--In a recent CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll, released by the AP, a dozen or so candidates names were mentioned, in asking likely voters who they wanted to see onthe ticket with John Kerry. John Edwards garnered 30% of the choices, with none of the other candidates mentioned breaking single digits.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3837586,00.html

Furthermore, I find it laughable how some people on DU have been consumed with continually posting negatively charged posts Re: Edwards for VP. I even had one DU'er send me a link to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, paste the committee's duties from the Senate.gov website, AND somehow sent me an outdated link which showed a list of Committee members, without John Edwards. The problem is, John Edwards IS on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

For any doubters who want to post inaccuracies, here are links to the Senate committees of which John Edwards is a member (btw: This may be why the Senate sent JRE to meet with President Musharaf during the Senator's trip to Afghanistan):

1- US SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTEL:
http://intelligence.senate.gov/members.htm

2- COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS:
http://health.senate.gov/committee_members.html

3- JUDICIARY COMMITTEE (This would be the one where he helped end the procedings during the impeachment trials)
http://judiciary.senate.gov/members.cfm

4- Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship
http://sbc.senate.gov/

with those findings, he's clearly the best choice for Kerry, and will unite the party and give us tremendous momentum. Edwards is the best campaigner out there and our best hope for 2012!

There's no denying Edwards is currently the popular choice for VP.

The voters want Edwards to be VP.

He's a moderate liberal from the south with a southern accent!!! Who else is better??

Edwards can also get the independent vote.

with continually posting negatively charged posts Re: Edwards for VP."

I feel the same was about "how some people at DU have been comsumed with continually posting negatively charged posts Re: Clark for VP." Or just Clark period.

Hey, if you can use it as a blanket statement. So can I.

Now... for the record, I am far from qualified to judge the merits of any candidate for VP. Therefore, I do not participate in those threads except to defend my candidate from misinformation or blatant smears.

I appreciate those Edwards people who hold up for their candidate being the best choice for VP without resorting to sliming my candidate in the process.

Aside from that, I could not care less who is chosen for VP. Since John Kerry is good enough to trust with the presidency, I think that I can trust him to make the best possible choice for VP.

....I have admired General Clark's political asperations ever since he announced his candidacy. I also truly appreciate the respectful thread with which you have contributed.

:-)

Clark jumped into the race the same day Edwards did to take the spot light off Edwards...but it didn't work...Edwards is going to be VP..

Give it a rest

If the real battleground is Ohio and the midwest, it turns out that Edwards (not Gephardt as you might think) is the strongest partner for Kerry.
The question is not whether Edwards is the best choice. That's obvious. The question is whether Kerry wants to win enough or whether he thinks it is important to slap the last guy who stood against him. Kerry has had to endure a lot of "Edwards has what Kerry is missing." Now the question is: Is Kerry missing the kind of character that allows him to do what everyone knows is best for the party?

Ewards. There really isn't anyone who has been tested nationally like Edwards and has proven vote getting ability with disaffected repubs and independents in battleground states. Furthermore, in polls and in the primaries Democrats have expressed a clear preference for Edwards as vp. The disappointment will be palpable if he goes with someone else. (I'm really worrid that Bayh is further up the short list than many people realize.)

If Kerry chooses someone else- the spin will be that Kerry didn't want to be outshone or that there was still bad blood between him and Edwards from the primary. Furthermore, any other vp would be subject to inevitable comparisons with Edwards. I don't know anyone who could stand up to that.

It could even cause a dip in the polls and loss in momentum if Kerry goes elsewhere. We might loose some of the independents Edwards had won over.

"Is Kerry missing the kind of character that allows him to do what everyone knows is best for the party?"

EVERYONE...You mean the same majority that voted for Bush? If the Republicans hadn't voted for him he would be history. He's a very nice man but...offers very little to the Democrat party. Many many other people would be much more helpful.

Once the public knew more about Edwards that number would significantly drop. Do you think this will be okay with the average voter? This is far worse than a Howard Dean scream.

“In 1985, a 31-year-old North Carolina lawyer named John Edwards stood before a jury and channeled the words of an unborn baby girl.”

"She speaks to you through me," the lawyer went on in his closing argument. "And I have to tell you right now — I didn't plan to talk about this — right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She's inside me, and she's talking to you." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/31/politics/campaign/31EDWA.html?ex=1390885200&en=4fb97ac07a96f186&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

Bob Schaeffer on Imus described the moment when he determined that Howard Dean was unfit to be president as his “Hey Mabel” moment Can “Hey Mabel ,“come listen to the pundits discuss Edward’s channeling of an unborn child” be far behind (just don’t expect to hear it until Edwards is on the ticket)?

Your subject line does not reflect your real message. And you do not tell why those polls are worthless.

want you to think. Period. Got it!

I'm sorry but I hope you don't feel that way because it is just sad. If that is the point, then why vote? Why post? Why do anything if no one...and I'm part of the public..thinks on their own but only believe what the media and Republicans say?

I looked at all the candidates very closely and made my choice early. The media didn't influence anything I did. And the media and republicans didn't influence your vote did it?

Edwards helped change the focus of campaign and he brought the ideal that we need to take care of the poor. That we need to strengthen the middle class. And Kerry picked up on that message. If he goes no further, I will be pleased that his message had an effect.

I won't stand back now and believe that the media and the Republicans rule everything. We can make a difference...and I won't sit back and do nothing again.

but Edwards won't bring either of the Carolinas.

would be the best VP. If not VP, at least attorney general. However I want Elliot Spitzer in to, so how about Edwards as VP and Spitizer as AG. I like Edwards, he is a good speaker and I personally find him quite likable. By the time he dropped out he was my 3rd favorite overall candiate of all those who had and were in the race.