Burnt Orange Report

Republicans Don't Buy the Attacks on Edwards

By Byron LaMasters

John Edwards is more qualified to be President of the United States of America in 2004 than George W. Bush was in 2000. We've all said it in the lefty blogosphere, but I'll let a Republican say it best:

Today, President Bush took a shot at John Edwards, suggesting the U.S. senator was ill-prepared to be vice president of the United States. The attack was a cheap shot: John Edwards has served the same amount of time in the Senate as George W. Bush served as governor of Texas when he was elected president. The Texas legislature only meets every other year and the governorship of the Lone Star State has long been considered one of the weakest positions of its kind in America. Add to it that Edwards has sat on the intelligence committee through the days before and after September 11th. You could argue that Edwards has more experience in key areas than George W. Bush did when he ran in 2000.

Other vice presidents, like Harry Truman, were dismissed as political hacks and lightweights, too, because of their relative lack of experience. But when the Senator from Missouri replaced one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman exceeded all expectations and ended up being one of our country's strongest leaders.

Thanks, Joe Scarborough. The rest of the column is hogwash. He tries to claim that Bush has led the best economic recovery in twenty years. You have got to be kidding me. George W. Bush has created less jobs as president than any president since Herbert Hoover. Bill Clinton and Al Gore created Millions of jobs as president and vice president. And Scarborough claims that Bush has created the best economic recovery in twenty years? You have got to be kidding me. Anyway, its still good to see a conservative make the point that John Edwards is more qualified to be President than George W. Bush was four years ago.