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The 10 Most Dangerous Democratic Candidates In 2008
John Hawkins of the lively site Right Wing News has put together a list of the candidates a GOPer sees as the most “dangerous” candidates — candidates that are electable.
Guess who he lists as the most electable? You probably guessed wrong (and he is probably right).
Now READ THE LIST.
8 Responses to “The 10 Most Dangerous Democratic Candidates In 2008”
Why is that surprising at all? Mark Warner is quite obviously the most electable, and for the obvious reasons. The funny thing is that Warner may “speak Southern” but he does NOT have a Southern accent whatsoever. He’s from Connecticut. But Warner is also a huge and genuine supporter of NASCAR, delivering technology to rural people, and treating rural people with respect. He may be a Connecticut Yankee, but he is very comfortable in Southwest Virginia.
I’m big on Warner, actually I’d LOVE to see the Republicans fight a Warner/Clark ticket. So Warner only has a Governorship, so did Bush–and Clark could handle any of the foreign policy or security concerns.
Governors are infinitely more electable than Senators – they have none of the baggage, none of the ‘legislativespeak’, and since Gov’s are essentially the Presidents of their states, they (should) have practiced leadership and charisma.
Warner/Bayh or Warner/Clark, either would be a near-lock win for Little Blue – even the former, which lacks a distinct foreign policy name, would probably make it by given the unpopularity of the Iraq conflict. All the GOP can do now is hype up the visceral red response to canidates like Clinton, Kerry, and Gore with the hope that they get out of the Primaries. McCain sacked his popularity with moderate Dems for the time being, and I don’t think people realize how scummy George Allen seems after watching him on camera for ten minutes.
As a Virginian, I’d also be thrilled to see Warner win.
Warner/Biden is also something to consider. Frankly, I’m surprised they didn’t put Biden on their list. He has a certain degree of name-recognition and a pretty solid voting record. I don’t think he’s quite the guy for the Presidency, but he’d make a solid running mate.
Warner would be fine with me. I don’t know that much about him, but what I’ve heard is stuff I like. I could see myself voting for him even if Clark or Biden were his running mate.
I’m supposed to trust a blogger that has ads for Ann Coulter books on his site, about Democratic canidates for president?
And he better be a rural southerner considering how much he claims certain canidates from the south can’t speak southern.
I’m a Hoosier, and I can say that the article highly exaggerates the popularity of Evan Bayh in Indiana. It’s more accurate to say that he USED to be extremely popular, when he was governor and at first when he was a Senator. But ever since he started being interested in becoming President, he’s lost his individuality and become nothing more than a talking head for the Dem party line, just a tepid yes-man for the party establishment. Many of us are wondering where the real Bayh went, and who is this robot that serves us now (albeit reasonably well).
Since I lived in Indiana from 1976-2000, I don’t feel that Bayh’s popularity was exaggerated at all.