John Edwards: The candidate working 4 YOU!

The Hill ^ | 2/12/04 | Byron York

[Howlin]

I'm going down there tomorrow, so I'm going to try to get pictures from the front......er......waterside.

[Howlin]

I know! I want to be one of "the regular people," better known as "You," too!

[Mr. Mojo]

The point is not to make sense but to show audiences that Edwards cares deeply about them.

Looks like he's taking a page from the Clinton playbook -- his schtick is simply another version of "I feel your pain."

[Carolinamom]

Edwards has not "cared" for his NC constituents. Why believe him now?

[MoralSense]

Used to be a touching ballad on the radio here in Boston, with lyrics something like this:

"When you're hurt, and you're injured,
And there's nowhere you can turn...
There's a number you can call,
Call Attorney Jim Sokoloff."

Now here's how you campaign against Edwards. Record just such a commercial, overbearing sleaze and all. It'll sound just like any number of commercials for personal injury lawyers on the radio. Then make the payoff, "John Edwards...the man who will fight 4 you." Uplifting music trailing off in the background.

A few people will take it seriously. The rest will be on the floor laughing at the guy, and he'll be done for. The RNC, of course, would never do this (not, at least, since Lee Atwater's days there). But some PAC or other could.

Or Paul Shanklin could. You reading this, Paul?

[chimera]

Looks like he's taking a page from the Clinton playbook -- his schtick is simply another version of "I feel your pain."

Lord knows I'm no fan of Scumbag, but at least when he played this schtick he could speak from experience. He came from a poor white trash background and so he could honestly (a rare thing for Clinton) speak to that. Edwards and especially Kerry are treading on thin ice if they try that crap. Of course, that's if you bother to get informed. Most of the electorate doesn't, and the Rats know this.

[Howlin]

The thing that infuriates me about this "skit" is that he stole that "Believe" from Patrick Ballantine. Have you seen that ad with his beautiful daughter in it?

[Howlin]

Why does that name ring a bell with me, Jim Sokoloff?

[McGavin999]

"I'm working for YOU!" Uh huh, but he sure didn't work for the people of North Carolina. He just allowed them to pay his paycheck while he was out campaigning on THEIR dime.

[Howlin]

I am PRAYING that Edwards somewhere along the line says that Bush got paid for the National Guard when he was there.

Edwards has missed 80 percent of the votes since the first of October.

[JohnnyZ]

Now here's how you campaign against Edwards.

I'm not sure what kind of commercials Lauch Faircloth ran, but his campaign in '98 was based on demonizing Edwards as a sleazy trial lawyer, with, as we know, less than resounding success.

[Mo1]

hmmm time to begin opposition research on the breck girl.

Yep .. we're way ahead of it ;0)

[Howlin]

Did NOT get paid............er!!

[Carolinamom]

I saw a picture of Ballentine w/his family but not the campaign ad. It doesn't surprise me, however, that Edwards would steal the line from him. He selects the most profitable cases against companies, uses junk science and emotional appeals/crying to persuade jurors to award enormous amounts of $$$, from which he extracts 33%-40% for himself. He hasn't got a creative one in his body.......same speech (2 Americas/class warfare)all the time. Aren't people bored by now? I can't even stand to see him, much less hear him.

He was at a church BBQ I attended when he was running for the Senate and shaking hands w/everyone. I passed right by him /OUT pressing the flesh then. I feel the same way now....even more so. He's nothing but an opportunistic upstart.

[Helms]

My take on Edwards is that this is a Large Scale Midlife Crisis.

[Howlin]

http://ballantineforgovernor.com/ballantine_contents/video/

[Carolinamom]

creative one = creative bone (I short-circit when I even think about Babyface Edwards)

[GailA]

Heck, I thought him a long shot and ignored him.

[Lee'sGhost]

"As phony as it sounds, Edwards’s “Working 4 You!” appeal is undeniably effective with a large number of Democratic voters."

Yeah, the stupid ones. Wait, that's redudant.

[Constitution Day]

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