I've met Chet Edwards and while I agree with him on very little, I respect him as a person. He is a good man albeit very misguided on most issues.
Taylor went negative on day one and I predict he will lose 60%-40% on election day. Arlene Wohlgemuth lost 51%-47% and she was considered a fairly week candidate. Taylor could have been a strong candidate but his actions have scuttled his chances.
Wohlgemuth's only liability as a candidate was that she was not an Aggie. Edwards should have never won in 2004; he had barely won in 2002, and the new district was both new to him and more conservative than his old district, not to mention the fact that President Bush was atop the ballot. If Wohlgemuth lost while treating Edwards with kid gloves, then I think we should take the gloves off this time.
I know you're in the district and I'm not, and you personally know Edwards and I don't, but I fail to see the sense in treating Edwards's liberalism and hypocrisy as off-limits. Edwards was the lead sponsor of the sham substitute amendment to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban that, if approved, would have ensured that not a single abortion was prohibited, since it allowed for an exception whenever the abortionist certified that the "health of the mother" (which includes "mental health") could be affected by giving birth to the child, and obviously the abortionist could always say that childbirth poses risks to the mother's health. I would have no pity for Edwards if his constituents were informed that Edwards wanted to keep the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion legal in all 50 states.