So let me get this straight : Edwards is so-so among the netroots for months on end. He hires two feminist bloggers to help run his online campaign but after they become the targets of mysogynists-are-us The Catholic League, he fires them --and badly, may I add.
So two months after the women were dragged through the mud, somehow the crowds at DailyKos and MyDD find John Edwards to be good enough to be their president?
Matthew Yglesias / Clinton Doomed! [1]:
Jerome Armstrong rounds up online preference polls, revealing the big three going 42/25/13 on dKos, and 43/34/8 on MYDD. In third place, of course, is Bill RIchardson. Barack Obama's in second. And that's John Edwards with the commanding lead. Hillary Clinton's a distant fourth, pulling in three and four percent respectively. She does better in a MoveOn poll -- 11 percent -- that actually places her in fifth behind Dennis Kucinich's surprisingly strong 17 percent. Jerome makes a valiant effort to spin this as demonstrating something other than the netroots being out of touch with general Democratic sentiment, but is good enough to concede that he doesn't "expect Clinton to get blown away with single-digits." And good for him.
Given the brou-ha-ha over Markos' comments about online violence against women [2], what does it say about the people who have made these two sites the most important online money-makers for the DNC? Or is John Edwards doomed to the same fate that befell his 'netroots' predecessor, Howard Dean?
If I were the people in the Edwards camp, I'd be very weary of coming out on top of any DailyKos polls at such an early stage of the primary game. It will cost them the nomination.
But to those who don't want to have Hillary Clinton losing to a Rudy Giuliani in the general elections, this absolutely does not bode well. Because when the time comes, she will elicit the same insider knee-jerk reaction so many had with John Kerry --and look how that got us 4 more years of George Bush.
To which, I'd like to add : If George Bush was evil yet incompetent, many New Yorkers will attest to the fact that Giuliani's megalomania and intelligence makes him vastly more competent --and dangerous-- than the whole Bush administration combined.
Just saying.
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