John Edwards wasn't running for a sophomore term in the U.S. Senate because polls showed he would probably lose. His home turf reveals why he is the political and intellectual equivalent of the smiley-face button.
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How embarrassing: North Carolina's Moore County is pro-Bush territory and voted against Edwards in 1998.
The Los Angeles Times paid a visit and reported today, "There were no banners, no balloons, no Kerry-Edwards lawn signs."
"He lives in Raleigh. He doesn't live here," deliveryman Terry Parrott told the pro-Democrat newspaper. "Seems like, in the last couple of years, the only time he's been here was when the news comes to town."
'Immoral' but 'Cute'
The Times reported from the candidate's hometown: "Edwards' party is not the only quality that unnerves people in Robbins; many here find the practice of law immoral."
John L. Frye Sr., a former mayor of Robbins and father of one of Edwards' closest friends, would not help pay to send his son to law school. His reason: "The law profession is not an honest profession."
Of course, the good folks of Moore County don't have the sort of insane hatred for Edwards that the left demonstrates toward President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. "Middle-aged women gush like schoolgirls over how cute he was when they passed him in the halls of North Moore High School," the Times noted.
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