freecounterpoint: Edwin Edwards

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Awesome quips in the comments.

Mr roT said...: Before election day, Edwards had joked with reporters: "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy". Edwards zinged Treen many times, once describing Treen as "so slow it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes." During a gubernatorial debate in 1983, Treen asked Edwards, "How come you talk out of both sides of your mouth?" Edwards instantly responded, "So people like you with only half a brain can understand me." Although Edwards won the 1983 election in a 62 percent landslide, effectively ending Treen's political career, former Governor Treen has since spoken out against his former opponent's incarceration.; 1/17/2010 3:48 PM
Mr roT said...: Continuing his artful use of humor to deflate an opponent, and referring to his considerable reputation as a Lothario, Edwards said of [opponent and former Klansman David] Duke, "The only thing we have in common is that we both have been wizards beneath the sheets." On Election Day, Edwards defeated Duke in a landslide, 61% to 39%, a margin of nearly 400,000 votes.; 1/17/2010 3:49 PM
Tecumseh said...: What was his electoral slogan? Vote for the crook, not the kook?; 1/17/2010 8:05 PM
Mr roT said...: No, unfortunately. It was preachy, as usual, from the moralists. It was simply,"Vote for the crook. It's important."

Your suggestion is superior.; 1/18/2010 12:14 AM

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