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Contributors
Chuck DeVore- Contributor
Assemblyman Chuck
DeVore represents 450,000 residents of Orange County
California’s
70th Assembly District.. He served as a Reagan White House
appointee in the Pentagon from 1986 to 1988 and was Senior
Assistant to Cong. Chris Cox. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Army
National Guard. Chuck’s novel, CHINA
ATTACKS, sells internationally and has been translated
into Chinese for sales in Taiwan. [go to DeVore index]
 Edwards:
Good for Us...
Conservatives should be glad a lightweight is Kerry's choice…
[Chuck DeVore] 7/7/04
The John-John ticket has now been created.
What does the 51-year-old Edwards bring to the Democratic ticket,
other than his wide smile and folksy drawl?
The first-term senator from North Carolina was a trial attorney
for 21 years before he decided to run for the U.S. Senate in
1998 after two high-profile Democrats decided not to run. With
heavy backing from trial attorneys across the nation, and by
deploying his own considerable fortune amassed suing people,
Mr. Edwards beat Republican Senator Lauch Faircloth with 51%
of the vote.
In September of last year, he announced he would not stand for
reelection, ostensibly to focus on running for President (most
observers thought he would have a rough time winning a second
term).
The last time the Democrats ran two senators for the nation's
top two offices was in 1960. There is a certain superficial symmetry
between 1960 and 2004. John F. Kerry and John Edwards do have
a couple of attributes in common with the 1960 Democrat ticket:
Senator John F. Kennedy, a Catholic Massachusetts Brahmin and
veteran (who promoted and revised his wartime record) and Lyndon
Johnson, a senator from the South.
Beyond the accident of geography, Mr. Edwards is no Mr. Johnson.
Lyndon Johnson served in the U.S. House of Representatives before
winning his seat the U.S. Senate in 1948. He was chosen by Democrats
to be Minority Leader in 1953, the youngest person to serve in
that capacity. He was then named Majority Leader the next year
when the Democrats recaptured the Senate. In 1957, Mr. Johnson
engineered the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
Mr. Edwards’ Senate
legacy is weak. He has left no lasting impression on this great
deliberative body.
It will be amusing
to hear the Democrats try their best to make Mr. Edwards appear
qualified to be one heartbeat away from the
Presidency. The hypocrisy will soon be thick when the same people
who savaged Senator Dan Quayle as too “inexperienced” in
to be Vice President 1988 will be silent about Senator Edwards’ qualifications
(Mr. Quayle beat an eight-term Democrat incumbent for Congress
in 1976, won reelection by the greatest margin his district had
ever seen two years later, then won a race for the U.S. Senate
in 1980, beating three-term incumbent senator Birch Bayh to become
the youngest senator elected in Indiana, then won reelection
in 1986 by the largest margin in Indiana history).
Mr. Edwards made himself
a millionaire by convincing North Carolinians willing to serve
on civil juries to stick it to the large, nasty
corporations. He then spent his millions to win one election.
On the national scene, he will soon prove to be a lightweight,
unworthy of the serious times in which we live. Mr. Edwards’ lack
of experience will quickly wear thin on an American public concerned
about fighting, and winning, the war against radical Islamicists
and their tactics of terror.CRO
Chuck DeVore is the Republican nominee in the 70th State Assembly
District. www.ChuckDeVore.com
copyright 2004 Chuck DeVore
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