A 2nd Woman for President?
Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 10:29AM 
Gee, I didn't realize that two women are running for President of the United States - meet Elizabeth Edwards, self-styled strategist for her husband, the Silk Pony (aka John Edwards):
--- Criticizing Hillary Clinton for stealing her husband's health care plan (source):
"Does Mrs. Clinton's plan seem very familiar to you?" Edwards said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Mrs. Clinton has - seven and a half months after John unveiled his health care plan - unveiled a health care plan that is in every material respect just like John's."
--- Endorsing gay marriage rights, in contrast to her husband's support of civil unions (source)
--- Confronting Ann Coulter for saying mean things about the Silk Pony (source and source), demanding Ms. Coulter to "stop with the personal attacks".
She doesn't sound like she's campaigning for her husband, she sounds like she's running her own campaign. And in an effort to clarify something she said about comparing her husband to Clinton and Obama:
Asked about her comment that, "We can't make John (Edwards) black and we can't make him a woman," Elizabeth Edwards responded: "I do hate to use that. It's taken out of context. I was talking about the Internet and trying to break through on mainstream media..."(source)
The clarification was supposed to be this:
So we have turned — because we can't do anything about that dynamic, we've turned to try to communicate directly with people through the Internet and — no offense — not allowed the mainstream media to be a sieve that blocks John's message." (source)
They WANT to break thru the MSM, but they don't want the MSM to be a "sieve" for their message. Conundrum anyone?
Her outspoken behavior is causing concern within the Edwards campaign:
Elizabeth Edwards has become such a force that her husband's campaign strategists are being peppered with questions about whether she has begun to overshadow the candidate. And some critics have suggested that the campaign is using her as her husband's frontline surrogate because her personal history (not just the cancer but also the 1996 death of the Edwardses' 16-year-old son, Wade, in a car accident) makes her difficult to confront. (source)
With the Silk Pony continuing to run a distant third in the polling numbers, he needs all the help he can get. Except that his wife's mouth isn't the asset he seems to believe it is.
Reader Comments (1)
Ah, but Elizabeth has had at least one shining moment: she called out the slimeballs at MoveOn for their BetrayUs ad, thereby incurring the wrath of the nutroots. AFAIK, Joe Biden is the only Dem presidential candidate who repudiated that MoveOn ad. Too bad Breck-Boy isn't as smart as his wife. But then again, you could say that about a lot of guys, couldn't ya? ;-)