has progressives hallucinating motives.
Only six months ago advisor Joe Trippi joined the Edwards campaign, and the argument could be made this new pitbull strategy for Edwards has at least a little to do with Trippi’s presence. In 2004 Trippi worked for then-frontrunner Howard Dean, who engaged in a bloody battle with Dick Gephardt while John Kerry slipped past the both of them. According to Alegre’s source close to Dean, Trippi couldn’t stand Edwards in ’04, thought he was a doubletalker who could never win. This source speaks for a lot of campaign observers who are wondering right now why Edwards would dare go so nasty in a state that abhors negative campaigns, reflected in his recent slide.
Here’s the catch: Trippi is close friends with Obama advisor David Axlerod. The theory goes something like this: Axlerod and Trippi decide Edwards can’t possibly win, so Axlerod sends Trippi to Edwards’ campaign to put on a full-blown attack, and like a suicide bomber, Edwards blows up his own campaign, dragging Hillary down in the process with a rallying cry of “Hillary Must Not Win.”
Hey, stranger things have happened. I’m jumping on board with Alegre here. What do you think?
I think you’re nuts, but that’s Trippi, man. What’s got you screwed up is that you continue to cling to the presumption that the Edwards campaign has any sort of strategy that makes sense, or stands for anything at all. Let it go.
The motives aren’t ulterior; they’re transparently 1) Silky Pony, 2) Silky Pony, 3) Silky Pony.
How did Rove get to Trippi?
As I have said before, the scariest thing to me about the success the Democrats are having is how utterly incompetent the Republicans must be to allow an opposition party this clueless to stay in the game.
Trippi is a mercenary. Edwards is attacking the frontrunner. If you see some sort of nefarious conspiracy in that, you really should just shut the fuck up in any discussion of politics.
The only thing Edwards has to offer is his own opinion that he’s cute.
Ah, but you overlook the real secret, Grasshopper. As long as the GOP’s opposition is this ridiculous, there will never be room for a new opposition party that might be able to fight its way out of an imaginary paper bag.
‘Cause if you’ve been paying attention, an opposition party that is actually, like, sane and stuff, would beat these Republicans like a suicidal cow.
…but let’s leave Rosie out of this.
Edwards’ strategy is to make Hillary look centrist. If Edwards tried to get to the right of Hillary on anything, that would be very interesting I guess, but he’s being a team player so far. Trippi helps coordinate the campaigns is all.
I knew that Kerry had lost when he picked a completely unserious person like Edwards in ’04. Edwards has done nothing since then to change my mind. He is an embodiment of all that is bad in politics, and with lawyers.
I’m beginning to like Edwards. He’s so totally incompetent that he’s the closest thing that’s come along in years to the libertarians’ “None of the Above”.
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Edwards could easily kick Hillary’s teeth in with that deal where she wants to sprinkle licenses on illegal aliens, but he’s not. That wasn’t even his idea. Edwards more than ever is sticking to the script since the writers are on strike.
Maybe Edwards needs to freshen up his internet strategy – bring Amanda back – at least it would liven things up a bit and be funny.
Unfortunately, happyfeet, the Dems will not make any hay out of that, unless they are tacking even further to the Left than they already are. Wouldn’t it be neat to see Edwards and Obama attacking Hillary because she is a racist warmonger?
guys! guys! you’re forgetting, Chris Dodd did peg Hillary on this thing. but then, it was Chris Dodd….
Chris Dodd is Cousin Oliver. He wants to play too.
Psst. Dodd smokes reefer. Pass it on.
Chris Dodd is also the one that brought us the line that Senator Byrd (KKK-Dem) was the right man at any point in our history. Except it got no press, unlike Lott.
Plus, Dodd is a Dem. He will not be held to his positions that he takes now. Come tomorrow, he could be out there saying the exact opposite, and nobody will call him on it, because – 1) He is a Dem, 2) he is irrelevant, and 3) Who the fuck cares what Chris Dodd has to say about anything?
but…but… he’s got a blog at the huffpo and everything.
haters.
How did Rove get to Trippi?
Guess who?
Edwards is not running for President. The “campaign” is a mail-fraud operation that, like Edwards’ whole persona, is modeled after Oral Roberts. He’s just cashing suckers’ checks.
Some Wiki, for the children:
There’s more, but you get the idea. Replace messianic religious crap with messianic political crap, shuffle the dead children around, make one of them Christopher Reeve, replace the cancer cure with the (forgotten, but still hilarious) cancer-diagnosing hug, etc., and here’s Johnny.
The 900-Foot Hillary will be having a word with him shortly.
“guys! guys! you’re forgetting, Chris Dodd did peg Hillary on this thing. but then, it was Chris Dodd….”
OOOF!!
Chris Dodd is (unfortunately) my senator, and what a useless piece of pandering flotsam he is. Sadly, this is Connecticut, and his seat will never be in danger.
The only thing I can ever recall him actually doing of any consequence, was embarrassing himself by being one third of a waitress sandwich with the His Fatness, Ted Kennedy.
Quite a thing for that to be your most famous accomplishment as a U.S. Senator.
BLECH!
When is Edwards going to play the gender card?
Edwards biggest problem is that you can still see Elizabeth’s lips move when he talks, she needs more practice before that is a national-level act.
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The evident unpointlessness of the Romney campaign (at least in NH) has this small government type questioning motives.
Pursuant #8, along with Hilary!, this is a concern.
And vice versa. I think that in 2008 we can finally do away with that church and state thing.
Didn’t O’Rourke describe Dodd as “that human-rum blossom”?
Coming from a tippler like P.J., that’ gotta hurt.
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