Drudge is such a joke

The argument being that the Republicans fear Edwards most because he is the most electable according to recent polls and the one who if elected would actually take on the corporate controlled government.

Perhaps they'd do anything necessary to stop him? Is looks like swift boat time again.

is that the best douchey drudge can do? sah-weet! i can get my hopes up about edwards again. can it really be happening?

I love that guy.

Once you look beyond the hype you'll find there is a lot to like about Edwards.
My two bits is that Hilary and Barack have gotten a lot of the hype but Iowans are being forced to take a closer look and like what they see.
If you remember Kerry only beat Edwards by a few points in 2004 and that was due almost entirely to Kennedy stumping for him. As Kennedy is currently neutral Edwards is harvesting the lead that should have been his 4 years ago.
At least think about coming to the Edwards Iowa Caucus party at the Spitfire on the 3rd.

Feh, silly Drudgers! It's not a real sex scandal unless there's a gay rent boy, and a wetsuit, and ladies undies, and....

I liked the story about the Santa hats on the whales.

Edwards uses populist economic arguments that the Democrats haven't used for decades, arguments that today's Republican party can no longer counter effectively. Who today doesn't believe there's a class war going on? Besides Hillary and Obama, I mean.

His economic nationalism really turns me off, mercantilism is not the wave of the future

@9

What are you brown nosing for that Wal-Mart greeter job?
I am for trade but it should be fair.
Can we agree that children and prisoners of state should not be making goods for export?
Can we agree that goods imported into our coutry meet our health and environmental standards?
Do you really have problems with these ideas? Or is that a big "turn off" for you?

After much apathy about all these people, I decided Edwards is the one. If you must choose a politician, choose him.

no, its the old line from the 2004 campaign about opening firehouses in Iraq while closing them in the US.

The US needs environmentally and morally conscious trade, but historically these have been used by American politicians and industry as non-tariff barriers to hinder the development of less developed countries. A person working in India is just as important as someone working in West Virginia.

@9

Don't tell the Chinese, Russians or South Koreans, or Japanese that.

Cause they'll laugh at you. Laissez faire free trade is a bedtime story the IMF uses to lull stupid and weak third world countries into becoming dumber, weaker. (Seen any real economic growth in Latin America in the last few decades?)

Median income in the US has basically been flat for 30 years. Men in their 30's earn *less* than their father's generation did:

http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/25/pf/mobility_study/index.htm?postversion=200705

Trade is only part of the picture, but its use as a hammer against any American who would ask for more wages or better working conditions has definitely been part of the picture.

We need trade, but we need a national strategy that makes more folks benefit from it. Otherwise we're just making the protectionists right.

Voodoo84-

I obviously underestimated your response.
I think a new tariff policy would be a good approach.
The question now is how do we move other countries to socially and environmental polices we accept?
I think raising the bar at home would be a good first step. Why not tell the world that their products and production manners shoul match our expectations? We are a pretty big market wouldn't that be a good thing?

I was a Drudge Addict till 2004 when he did not run a story about that weird wire going down Bush's back during the debate. I figured he should just run crap on both sides, but apparently he was too biased for that. I just read the Slog for my crap intake for the day.

@14:
I've got a better idea: Why not tell America's Fortune 500 companies that their production manners, applied in third world countries, should match our expectations?

Talk about thinking globally, acting locally...

Just so long as it isn't Hillary.

Go Edwards!!!

Remember Obama's campaign stop with the anti-gay, fundi-, xtian preacher? I do.

Go Edwards, go!

Mr. DogBen,

Yes I do. Here's more on Edwards and Obama:

http://www.artdish.com/ubbcgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=000435

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