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Elizabeth Edwards: "Republicans Scare Me"
December 15, 2007 7:43 PM
ABC News' Raelyn Johnson reports: Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic hopeful John Edwards, lamented with Iowa caucus goers about her fear of the Republican Party.
"Republicans should scare us in a lot of ways," Edwards said as she was introducing her husband at a town hall in Dubuque, Iowa.
Speaking about Republican candidate Mike Huckabee, who recently surged ahead in Iowa polls, Elizabeth noted, "He seems like a nice charming guy," before saying that Huckabee, "doesn’t believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city — we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me."
She went on to warn about the larger party, saying, "Karl Rove may not be working in the White House anymore but you can pretty much be sure he’s going back in the presidential race... I believe he’s going to be back and he’s going be doing that same kind of Rovian politics that we’ve seen before — the kind of attacks that we saw against Sen. McCain in South Carolina we can expect to see against our nominee, 'swift boating,' all of that kind of stuff again."
John Edwards has been spending the last week campaigning in Iowa. Elizabeth joined him recently and has been making her presence felt by speaking at various moments throughout town hall meetings. Actor and supporter Kevin Bacon joined Edwards on Saturday, surprising audiences with a performance from the Bacon Brothers Band, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that this bus tour is being headlined by Elizabeth.
Pleading her husband’s case, she told caucus goers that Edwards could survive the Republican attack machine: "We have to have a candidate who stands up, can take the punches and give it back to them."
December 15, 2007 in Clinton, Hillary | Permalink | User Comments (482)
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In less than a month her husband can go back to being the page on 30 Rock.
Posted by: woody | Dec 15, 2007 9:45:38 PM
John Edwards scares me. Republicans should not believe in evolution and how can anyone believe in evolution? Elizabeth Edwards needs to go home and raise her children and John Edwards needs to go with her. People like them scare me.
Posted by: Janice | Dec 15, 2007 9:49:46 PM
Remember that Elizabeth Edwards made similarly hateful comments about her non-wealthy neighbors.
Posted by: J.D. Bolick | Dec 15, 2007 9:51:44 PM
You Republicans are one bunch of fools. Just read your own nonsense. If I didn't know better - I'd think your collective comments were taken from a comedy script.
It's an embarrassment to have to share the same country
Okay, show of hands. How many of you are STILL supporting W's outlaw administration?
Enough said.
Posted by: Brent Mack | Dec 15, 2007 9:53:53 PM
Edwards is evil and why he will never win.
Posted by: Kevin | Dec 15, 2007 9:54:28 PM
Candidates' spouses should be seen and not heard. Republicans scare Mrs. Edwards? Fine, You know what scares me? Sleazy, slimy trial lawyers and their loudmouthed wives.
Posted by: Al Santangelo | Dec 15, 2007 10:02:06 PM
Am I asleep or is this actually happening? A proven female liar and thief running for office with the help of a pervert husband who can't control his zipper(s), The one on his pants and the one on his face.
We have a pretty boy ambulance chaser who wants the same office. His wife fills the pimp-in-charge role. She also has a runaway mouth.
It scares the heck out of me that these two blossoms want to head the most powerful nation in the world.
Please tell me I am dreaming.
Posted by: twenty2twenty | Dec 15, 2007 10:03:34 PM
I really wish this stupid woman would shut up! She has got to be one of the most annoying people anywhere. Sounds like she really wants to die with more enemies than friends.
Posted by: Yo Momma | Dec 15, 2007 10:06:43 PM
Shysters scare me! Look it up!
Posted by: John Black | Dec 15, 2007 10:15:02 PM
Trial lawyers who foam at the mouth thinking about suing doctors for malpractice (which is the reason why healthcare costs so much nowadays) scare me a lot more than Republicans.
Posted by: Phil | Dec 15, 2007 10:17:22 PM
Poor little rich girl is afraid of the big bad GOP? I feel actually sorry for this woman - her husband thinks more about preening in front of the crowds than staying with his family as his wife slowly loses her battle with cancer. Hopefully the servants are keeping up their vast properties while they are on the road campaigning (he's been like an Iowa native now for 7 years!). In a couple months, they'll be but a footnote in history (again).
Posted by: Dennis Kelly | Dec 15, 2007 10:18:32 PM
Edwards isn't evil, he's just naive and ignorant like most liberals and democrats. You dems are funny, assuming all your material goods, food, clothes, etc., are brought to you buy unicorn burps, it's the oil you stupids, all of this is to secure the supply of oil, because if you don't get your gas, you die and so does your family. You secure the oil by subduing those who threaten to disrupt supply, simple.
Posted by: chris | Dec 15, 2007 10:18:33 PM
Huckabee, like John Edwards, is an idiot. But I think Elizabeth is putting words in his mouth regarding inner city violence.
Posted by: Willis | Dec 15, 2007 10:19:34 PM
Reading some of these comments frightens me. Are you really the Americans I meet in the grocery store line? Have you no decency for other human beings? To some of you, being an American is more important than being a human being. In fact, removing the humanity in your actions makes you un-American.
Posted by: Joe | Dec 15, 2007 10:20:39 PM
Elizabeth and John Edwards scare me. Democrats scare me. When are we going to start charging Democrats and politicans with treason
Posted by: Bubba Smith | Dec 15, 2007 10:21:49 PM
The "larger party"? By what count?
Posted by: Confused | Dec 15, 2007 10:22:16 PM
She forgot to mention that Republicans eat babies and use puppies to fuel their SUVs!
Posted by: Ken in Irvine | Dec 15, 2007 10:24:36 PM
Talk about group mentality/thinking.
Brent... meet the kettle, which is black.
Go back to your Move-on, class-envy, socialist-utopia compound.
Posted by: El JAy | Dec 15, 2007 10:26:15 PM
it is amazing!
Democratic shills and operatives get away with outrageous, idiotic, and slanderous remarks about? One half of the United States population?
what the H...would they do if given presidential power?
drive this country right off the cliff!
Evita belongs in Argentina
, Chavez belongs in Venezuela and the Democrats along in history's dustbin.
Posted by: Old Doc | Dec 15, 2007 10:39:25 PM
its not actual republicans that scare me. Its the religious fundies that have hijacked the party that are scary. To think that, in Huckabee, we could have a candidate MORE scientifically illiterate than George W is beyond scary.
Posted by: jjaok | Dec 15, 2007 10:40:31 PM
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