...is this probably has little or nothing to do with what the bloggers said.
It's an effort to disrupt the Edwards campaign.
The opposition doesn't want to take on Edwards about the issues. It's too early - the issues may be different, at least in intensity, by New Hampshire.
They don't want to take on Edwards personally. He's been through a Presidential campaign - there's just not a lot of dirt to dig that hasn't already been dug, four years ago.
So if you can't work the issues and you can't work a smear, how do you destroy the guy who is probably the third strongest contender, and the only white male of the three?
You work his staff. Especially the staff that might reach younger, hipper, and otherwise unreachable voters. Like his bloggers.
Make him look stupid and careless; paint him as sympathetic to anti-Christan wingnuts. Keep him busy recreating the wheel, spending time and energy and money to restaff and rebuild his Internet image. Force him into damned if I do and damned if I don't mode; defend the bloggers and he loses the right; fire them and he loses the left.
If it hadn't been the bloggers, it would have been someone else.
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The sad part about it
Date: 2007-02-17 12:16 am (UTC)It's an effort to disrupt the Edwards campaign.
The opposition doesn't want to take on Edwards about the issues. It's too early - the issues may be different, at least in intensity, by New Hampshire.
They don't want to take on Edwards personally. He's been through a Presidential campaign - there's just not a lot of dirt to dig that hasn't already been dug, four years ago.
So if you can't work the issues and you can't work a smear, how do you destroy the guy who is probably the third strongest contender, and the only white male of the three?
You work his staff. Especially the staff that might reach younger, hipper, and otherwise unreachable voters. Like his bloggers.
Make him look stupid and careless; paint him as sympathetic to anti-Christan wingnuts. Keep him busy recreating the wheel, spending time and energy and money to restaff and rebuild his Internet image. Force him into damned if I do and damned if I don't mode; defend the bloggers and he loses the right; fire them and he loses the left.
If it hadn't been the bloggers, it would have been someone else.
Hilary and Obama staffers should take warning.