Joe Trippi - "What I should have told John Edwards"

[Catchawave]

http://www.campaignsandelections.com/articles/?ArticleID=9A91C199-1422-17E0-F88C7DABA23AAE8B



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[spooky3]

1. really interesting, thank you.

[balantz]

2. Sadness.

This Edwards (agenda) supporter still has a broken heart. We could have turned Washington upside-down.

[waiting for hope]

3. You got that right ...

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[midnight]

4. Always stick to your plan, even if it becomes a long shot.....

[cindydivine]

5. Oh, wow.

What a drag, man, really. Can you imagine how horrible he must feel??!!?!

[Catchawave]

6. More...from an Iowa Precinct Captain...

http://www.bleedingheartland.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1320

...from "boots on the ground"....:cry:

[Catchawave]

7. Love Taylor Marsh.....

http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27568

[spooky3]

9. I do too. I think the thing that angers me the most is that a certain candidate

has "borrowed" so many policy ideas from JRE, and the media raised no questions about this at all.

[Greylyn58]

8. Damn! Now I'm all sad again.

What could have been... :cry:

[adnelson60087]

10. It is still not too late

I still dream that the Democratic leadership (as it were) will realize both Hillary and Obama are dead against McCain. They need to unify the party and neither of these 2 will do it. Gore could but likely won't. Edwards is still our best (longshot) hope in November, if we have the courage to see the truth before us.

[AndyA]

11. Geez, reading that doesn't make me feel any better.

I keep hoping something will happen, but I fear it won't.

Four more years of mediocrity in government at best, eight more years of GOP terrorism and control at the other end of the spectrum.

I sure wish the message had been to use to Atlanta ticket. :(

[balantz]

12. Me too, brother.

Now it's just the Atlanta dream of what might have been.

[Two Americas]

13. interesting

I strongly suspect that Tripp is varnishing the truth a little here in a self-serving way, and actually played a bigger role in getting Edwards out of the race than he is letting on.

Edwards would have gotten stronger as the race went along, I am certain of that. That would taken a campaign manager who was in touch with the everyday people, and who had the guts and integrity to dedicate himself to the man and the campaign he was managing.

Who "looks bad" when a campaign is a long shot rather than a quick success, and who suffers and who loses? The manager of the campaign, that is who. Not the candidate, not the people, not his supporters. Who misses those private planes and plush accommodations? Edwards? Hah. Trippi, maybe? Whose ego was bruised by this, whose career and 6 figure income as a consultant were at risk?

I invite everyone to read back through that article carefully and critically. There is a lot there between the lines. Trippi was the wrong man, at the wrong time, in the wrong place. The article is a CYA effort on his part.

[balantz]

14. That suspicion did sneak into my head.

He is looking ahead to future work.

I wonder what the real story is.

[Two Americas]

15. it is a chronic problem

Maybe we over-complicate things. I remember after the 2004 election, watching Kerry and I had an insight about this. I realized that he did not have that much at stake, that he would be fine - his life would be good no matter what happened. A couple of days of sadness maybe at the most with sycophants and toadies around him telling him he wasn't to blame and that he did a good job and was not to be faulted. I think the candidates and their advisers and consultants are so divorced from the reality the rest of us are living, we matter so little to them, that they don't care all that much what happens. It is just a game to them, and their personal lives are not affected that much by what happens. They are surrounded by people who reinforce the idea that "this is the way the game is played, and what can you do?" And of course the activist community is useless - we put no pressure on them, we are no threat to them. To the contrary - with very little effort on their part they win undying adulation and worship from the activist community. We represent them - their careers, their fabulous fortunes, their luxurious lifestyles, their status and power - they don't represent us. We fight for them, they don't fight for us. Why should they?

Why should the politicians care about us? They don't have to, there are no penalties if they don't, we don't demand that of them.

Does this ever occur to activists - that those leaders and politicians we idolize don't care at all about us and are merely playing us along and pandering to us, while we promote and defend them as though our lives depended upon it?

[Horse with no Name]

16. Oh wow

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