01/30/2008 (3:58 pm)
Appalling: Why Edwards Lost
As John Edwards drops out of the Democratic primary race, intellectuals from the New Republic can’t stop congratulating him on how good a campaigner he was: Johnathan Cohn on why Edwards won, then TNR Editor Ed Kilgore on why Edwards lost. Analyses concerning Edwards’ hard-hitting populist message about economic inequality in America, and why it didn’t catch on. Both are clueless.
Guys, Edwards didn’t catch on because he was a phony. None of his populist messages corresponded to anything in his past voting record. He wasn’t sincere. He stood for nothing other than gaining power for himself. And while you’ll always find a few patsies who haven’t been paying attention to follow a message like that, you can’t just paste words together and expect everybody to follow.
Of course, Democrat candidates have been attempting just that for decades now. I don’t recall the last Democratic Presidential nominee for whom it could not be said that any relationship between his true beliefs and what he said in public was pure coincidence.
Who said “You can fool some folks all the time, and everybody some of the time, but you can’t fool everybody all the time?” Oh, that’s right… it was a Republican!
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