Comments on: Don’t Back Down http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/02/07/dont-back-down/ Illinois, From Misery Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:39:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel Biss http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/02/07/dont-back-down/comment-page-1/#comment-8500 Daniel Biss Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:50:39 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2007/02/07/dont-back-down/#comment-8500 Yeah, for sure. And while I'm completely in agreement with the primary points you and others are making (a campaign should be loyal to its supporters, it should ignore extremists who are sure to oppose it no matter what happens, and if you can't stand up to these guys then you have no hope of dealing effectively with a full-on presidential race, much less a presidency), there's a secondary point that I'd like to make also: We all hate the cautious focus group-tested way that campaigns usually sound, and Edwards in particular has promised that he's past that kind of campaigning. Yet here he's apparently considered firing someone pretty much because she's used profanity a couple times, while expressing opinions that are occasionally slightly out of the mainstream (emphases on slightly and occasionally!). So this is the new I'm-not-controlled-by-polls-and-image-gurus John Edwards? Forget the candidate: every staffer has to pass the litmus test of never having said anything controversial? Yeah, for sure. And while I’m completely in agreement with the primary points you and others are making (a campaign should be loyal to its supporters, it should ignore extremists who are sure to oppose it no matter what happens, and if you can’t stand up to these guys then you have no hope of dealing effectively with a full-on presidential race, much less a presidency), there’s a secondary point that I’d like to make also:

We all hate the cautious focus group-tested way that campaigns usually sound, and Edwards in particular has promised that he’s past that kind of campaigning. Yet here he’s apparently considered firing someone pretty much because she’s used profanity a couple times, while expressing opinions that are occasionally slightly out of the mainstream (emphases on slightly and occasionally!).

So this is the new I’m-not-controlled-by-polls-and-image-gurus John Edwards? Forget the candidate: every staffer has to pass the litmus test of never having said anything controversial?

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