Kevin Sullivan asks his commenters, and PoliGazette co-bloggers and readers “[w]here is John Edwards? Couldn’t he ostensibly end this thing right now?” I agree with cfpete, who comments at Independent Liberal: he’s probably waiting for one of the candidates to offer him a VP spot or another top spot. Or, of course, he’s waiting until the very last moment so he can enjoy some time in the spotlight: kingmaker and all.
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Let’s HOPE John Edwards is waiting to go to Denver, where the Democratic Party will cast a few ballots and make him the Democratic Party’s nominee for president — instead of Hillobama, the "post-partisan" Republican-lite identity twins who can’t even commit to national health.
@T……..I am with you on that one!!
Much as I was a staunch supporter of Edwards. . .
it would take ahellofalot for me to support him again after he showed no character through his SDA (sudden disappearing act) which totally stiffed his supporters and strongly contradicted his "in it to the convention" promises. Stinky!
Hopefully Edwards will not endorse either Clinton or Obama, because neither of them will win in November anyway, and he needs to be able to call the Dumbocrats idiots for getting suckered by the media AWAY FROM HIM 2 ELECTIONS IN A ROW.The media pushed Dean and then Kerry in 2004, and Clinton and Obama in 2008, to make sure that they DROWNED OUT John Edwards’ voice both times.Clinton and Obama have gotten far enough on the backs of the media, Edwards shouldn’t give the media what it wants by endorsing either Clinton or Obama.
John Edwards has made himself irrelevant. While hoping to parlay his kingmaker status into a political appointment, he passed up the chance to endorse early in the race, when he still had the respect of his supporters, who have now no doubt settled on either Clinton or Obama. Instead of endorsing early, he had his campaign staff leak suggestions that — darn it all — he really just couldn’t make up his mind. Get real. He is a full-time politician, he campaigned against Obama and Clinton, and he knows them both personally. And yet he wants us to believe that he doesn’t have a preference? If he can’t discriminate between these two very different candidates, his endorsement shouldn’t really matter. And if he didn’t have the strength of character to endorse back when there was no clear frontrunner, his endorsement shouldn’t matter.
Edwards has gone from being a potential kingmaker to being just another superdelegate.
he’s holding out to see who wins… doesn’t want to damage his political future by aligning with the loser. i don’t really respect that, but what other reason could it be?