Reply #4: Do we really *want* 'retreads'?

[Stinky The Clown]

I suppose the perfect answer in a perfect world is 'no'.

But the world isn't perfect and neither are answers to complex issues.

Nixon was a retread .... and won in round 2.

My guess is that your question is about Gore and Kerry.

I am NOT stating my personal willingness to vote for either of them, as it is irrelevant to my point about each man.

Gore has done a more than credible job of rehabilitating his image. The ways in which he's accomplished this have been all too often discussed on DU and should be obvious.

Kerry .... not so much. Time may be against him in terms of distance from his (as I'll call it for clarity sake) defeat.

Edwards is still pretty much the same guy he was before he ran as veep and the shit that's been flung at Kerry has remarkably avoided splashing onto Edwards. I see him as still viable and not a retread.

Same goes, really, for any of the other primary opponents from 04. I don't see a one of them as being in the retread category.