- Though it is great to see John Edward’s team taking advantage of YouTube it would be nice if they signed up for a directors account so they could go ahead and put the entire video in one file!

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About a month ago Governor Mitt Romney began the 2008 Campaign attack season by going after Senator John McCain’s conservative record. Former Senator John Edwards whom began his campaign this week just made the second attack against McCain on ABC’s ‘This Week’.

Edwards referred to President Bush’s potential plan to raise troop levels in Iraq as the “McCain Doctrine”. Senator McCain has been a proponent of raising troop levels for several years now.

Senator Edwards isn’t the only one tying troop level increases to John McCain. Governor Tom Vilsack also has a letter you can co-sign to the Senator’s office urging against an increase.

Edwards & Vilsack might just be jumping on an item by the Evans-Novak report which said McCain has been witnessing a decline in polling numbers linked to his support of Iraq and troop levels.

Meet the Press, which is available on iTunes and online now for free, took an in-depth look at Gerald Ford this morning with Tom Brokaw and Bob Woodward. There was also a discussion about 2008 politics with a panel that included William Safire,

William Safire, who recently won a Presidential Medal of Freedom, predicts Hillary Clinton will lead by the end of 07′ and noted a point I made and will continue to make, that the press every few months finds someone new to be interested in that caters to a new need but ultimately the press moves on.

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson doesn’t think Barack Obama will win the nomination but will “have legs to stand on” and do well.

Safire also predicts that Senator John McCain will be ahead at the end of 07′.

Washington Editor for the National Review Kate O’Beirne believes John McCain will probably top the polls but says that “doesn’t mean he will get the nomination”. She believes there are vulnerabilities with McCain amongst conservatives and suggests Governor Mitt Romney might be a possible alternative.

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne agrees there is room for a more conservative candidate on the Republican side but sees possible problems with Mitt Romney because of recent revelations that contradict his conservative claims. On the Democratic side Dionne believes Senator Barack Obama could be “the real deal” as he has often been labeled. He also says not to discount the machinery of Hillary Clinton’s potential campaign.

Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss made no real predictions.

Political Wire is reporting a couple of items from the Evans-Novak Report.

1) That Conservative Republican Bill Simon has begun building a network of support in California for the potential presidential campaign of Rudy Giuliani. Simon worked as a prosecutor for Giuliani in NYC in 1986-1988.

2) That the Iraq War is a key factor in the recent decline in polls for Arizona Senator John McCain. The report suggests public disenchantment over McCain’s desire to raise troop levels by 30,000. Likewise the report says many republicans fear that if the President raises troops levels and a surge in progress is not seen immediately in Iraq it could have dire political consequences.

Former Senator John Edwards released the above announcement as a preview of his announcement today. His platform includes:

We know what we need to do. Changing our country means:
- Providing moral leadership in the world — starting with Iraq, where we should begin drawing down troops, not escalating the war.
- Strengthening our middle class and ending the shame of poverty.
- Guaranteeing health care for every single American.
- Leading the fight against global warming.
- Getting America and the world to break our addiction to oil.