To: American Spirit who wrote (431455 ) 7/22/2003 8:55:46 PM From: mahler_one Respond to Well done. I enjoyed your analysis. Cannot say if you are correct. Edwards is nothing more then a pretty face and long hair who became rich and well known on the back of torts. Get him back to the court room. Our Senator, Bob Graham, is a superb person with the integrity, grit, work ethic, and knowledge to be President. He is the best politician in the state...almost like Coke Robertson ( or was it Richardson...sorry ) in Texas who lost to LBJ via a stolen election and was too ethical and proud to either campaign, or contest the election. The rest, of course, is history. You have summarized Graham's liabilities quite well. Dean cannot win with his very left position, but could move to the center a la Clinton once the primary season is over. Could he win the nomination? Only if the electorate gets very fed up with Bush, and wants to turn 180 degrees away from the current candidates. He would truly be the candidate of the "angry and disillusioned ". Gebhardt has been around very long...almost like Dole, but on the Democratic side. Owed many debts, but probably cannot win. Give him credit for beginning to tackle some difficult issues. Kerry....well, I know little about him. It will be interesting to see how the campaign develops. If he has the aura of the knight waiting to be crowned, then such is a powerful force. He can mount, I think, a good campaign, but might be seen as as Kennedy look alike with Heinz money. Joe L....so very many positives, but the very obvious "negative" of his religious belief and northern base. No matter how hard one wants to believe that most of the country is "religion blind", most of us probably sense that despite the likelihood that he would make a superb President....and has just enough "right wing" in him to have mass appeal...the spector of a President coming out of synagogue on Saturday rather then church on Sunday will not sit well with the majority of the electorate.
