I got together last night with Cassandra from I Love Jet Noise, Chris Muir from Day By Day & Donald Luskin from The Conspiracy To Keep You Poor And Stupid, Trend Macrolytics, & National Review Online to discuss the 2004 election. Here is an edited transcript of our chat…(Cont)

I got together last night in a chat room with Mike Hendrix from Cold Fury, Daniel Drezner, who is a monthly contributor to The New Republic Online & who was an unpaid foreign policy advisor for the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign, Steve Martinovich, the editor and chief of Enter Stage Right, Bryan Preston from JunkYardBlog to discuss the 2004 election. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation. Read and enjoy! (Cont)

A Blogger Symposium On The 2004 Election: Thanks to Laurence Simon from Amish Tech Support, Talk Radio Host Cam Edwards who also runs a blog called Cam Edwards.com, David Hogberg of Cornfield Commentary & The American Spectator Online, Pejman Yousefzadeh from Pejmanesque, & Kamil Zogby from Zogby Blog for participating in this symposium. Here is the edited transcript of our discussion last night…

John Hawkins: To begin with, unless Hilliary or Gore got in the race, I’d say Dean, Kerry, Gephardt, Lieberman, & Edwards are the only candidates with even an outside chance to get the nomination. Do you agree?

Pejman Yousefzadeh: Yes. But, Al Sharpton can definitely play spoiler and can make life miserable for the other candidates.

Laurence Simon: Not only will I put a “no” on Lieberman, but I would not count Sharpton out of it. Sharpton is not just a spoiler, but can rally the ‘disenfranchised’ voter. He could mount one heck of a protest vote.

David Hogberg: I’d leave Lieberman out — the base wants a lefty, he’s still too moderate. (Cont)