Joe Trippi: Rove is attacking Clinton, because he is scared of Edwards

NGU.

Trippi is trying desperately to convince the Left Edwards is a Populist.

It's kind of sickening to watch DU'ers actually buying the phoney image Edwards tries to pull off.

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NGU.

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are trying to portray?

One needs only to look at Johnny's voting records to confirm every bit of what you say.

Edwards can't win the general election. Even my very libral MIL says he's too wishy-washy.

What type of lawyer was he exactly????

:shrug:

He supposedly took cases where he supported the underdog against corportaions. It is likely more complicated - He was good an dmade a huge fortune. He got money for many people who deserved it. His method in at least case disturbed me. He channeled the words at birth of a child born brain damaged. I really like cases to be won or lost on the merits.

Trippi did such a great job for Dean. :eyes:

campaign is beyond me. He should go away quietly and start a worm farm. I'll never forgive him for messing with Dean.

but since this comes *from the Edwards camp* a whoppin' big grain of salt is in order.

And in 2004, nobody went after Kerry to distract from Edwards. That's utter bullshit. They were afraid of Dean.

January that they attacked Kerry because they were afraid of Edwards. In late January, Dean was already out.

Plus, Rove denied it, so it must be true.

Kerry was the front runner when this started, so it makes sense Bush would attack, but the biggest attack was the intern affair - with no intern or affair - that was spread by Democrats.

Edwards has been ignored because the media is not really interested about his campaign.

Maybe because they also want to keep Edwards at bay too... Doesn't serve their corporate agenda to allow it to grow.

Maybe our corporate owned media doesn’t acknowledge Edwards because Edwards’ financial interests aren’t the same as the owners of FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN.

And the corporate media continues to ignore him. They've been giving front-runner status to Hillary because of her national polls, which at this point mean dick. She's well-known and she'll get the early numbers.

Edwards speaks out about the deep divisions and double standards that exist between the rich and the poor in America. This scares corporate types shitless, since it is they who are working diligently to destroy the middle class and turn America into a plantation-state.

Make no mistake. There is a well-focused effort by the corporate right to undermine Edwards' campaign. The haircut bullshit, the "Breck Girl" meme, ignoring his good polling in early primary states, etc., is all part of the plan to marginalize a "dangerous" candidate who doesn't suck at the corporate teat.

NGU.

Howard Dean's chief straategist when he ran for Prez. Trippi is not stupid, but his track record is sure NOT GOOD!

Check out his former clients!

Joe Trippi is a long-time American Democratic campaign worker and consultant. A mainstay in presidential politics, Trippi has worked on the presidential campaigns of Edward Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, and Dick Gephardt. Most notably, he served as campaign manager for presidential candidate and former Vermont governor Howard Dean.

He is currently working for the presidential campaign of former Senator John Edwards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Trippi

What a wacky, convoluted piece of drivel ... a conspiracy theory for the truly desperate.

But then, it's Joe Trippi.

...not.

C'mon. No one is attacking Edwards because he isn't a threat to anyone.

If his poll numbers were to go up, and if the candidates then started attacking him, what would Trippi say then???

this was already discussed at length here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3467747&mesg_id=3467747

they took out dean early. i think because they were most afraid of him. then they moved on to attacking the next highest on the list.
rove doesnt play a circular game, he always goes for the throat.
whoever they are spending the most effort to take out is the one they most want to take down right then.

so the idea that they are attacking hillary to get to edwards to me seems like wishful thinking from someone who prefers john over clinton.

When Rove said he wasn't scared of Dean in the 2004 campaign, I knew he was the one we should've picked.

Dean imploded in January. They claim to have started this attack on Kerry in late January - by that time Kerry had Iowa and NH in the bag. Kerry already had momentum.

I remember because I was canvassing houses at the time. This was long before the Dean Scream (that wasn't--I talked to someone who'd been there) or anything else.

Just like the "attack their strength" tactic, which was suddently obvious to them the day after the 2004 election.

that's what the pukeheads did down in Florida when jeb's snout was running against Reno and McBride..they attacked McBride in the primary like they were :scared: of him and it turns out it was Reno they didn't want to run against. I can see why. McBride wasn't a fighter..he folded real easy.

Was rove's snout involved in jeeby's campaign? his tactics?

...Giving an interview to one of the Sunday morning talking heads this last weekend, Karl butchered Patrick Fitzgerald's name again in a silly attempt to condescend, show disrespect, and somehow suggest that his unprecedented five trips to the Justice Department to testify didn't sweat him at all -- can't even remember the guys name? Yeah right. This demonstrates the opposite is likely true. Fitzgerald must've been weighing very heavily on Karl's mind and causing plenty of stressful nights, probably for months.

It has nothing to do with Edwards, or anyone else. Rove knows Hillary would be the best get-out-the-vote candidate the repugs ever had, it's as simple as that. It's probably the only way the repukes could possibly win the election - Obama, Edwards, hell, even Biden, Dodd, Richardson would probably win handily. Kucinich I think is doubtful, but you never know. The only real strategy the repukes need is to get Hillary the nomination, and that's all there is to it IMO.

DU was abuzz with the theory that Karl Rove WASN'T attacking Hillary because he wanted her to be the nominee.

when the marks are so dumb and obtuse you can take ANY tack and make it work. Attack Clinotn and it rallies the GOp and weakens her on fact. In fact it contrarily strengthens her chance to solidify a doubting, tepid base support and create a story, a set game and drama. Each group hears what the conman WANTS them to hear and this "risky" sideplaying is adjudicated by a Rove pocket media giiiving this strategy full and extra support.

Anyone arguing that Rove considers Hillary a sure thing and is just launching the typical GOP attack already want Hillary to win no matter what the other implications are. It certainly doesn't mean that he deep down thinks she is the most formidable foe. He dares to throw in our faces the truth that she is not, goes fatther to say she is a disaster, which works both as a taunt and instiller of doubt. If this is a ruse they too are willing allies. The hard truth for Edwards' supporters might be that by this point Hillary IS a sure thing, but then he wouldn't bother to keep the pot boiling only for the benefit of messing with the Dem primary system. They don't really like risks unless they are necessary. they want Hillary, they want a GOP rally and they want her weak. Rove does not really have to try hard or smart for the win/win on this one.

Everything adds up to the whole set of motivations. Editing to interpret actual Rove fear of Hillary or real attempt to defeat her in the primaries is a fantastic stretch even if he were a complete idiot. He is only a partial idiot who knows his media support, polticians of both parties be damned about their worries.

EDwards is conspicuous in the editing out of his role in the media horse race. It is meant to be a invisible thing so it is frustrating to argue this is intentional out of fear. Just like hidden e-voting. But I believe this poster is correct. The past attempts were not always so clear or effective but mainly they intend to mcuk up our choice and manoeuver the most probable, calculated, predictable loser they can into the "winner's" circle. Such a "winner" never gets the idea how exactly Rove leant a helping hand which is the whole point of the manipulation.

I don't think Rove is worried about him, Clinton and Obama are the only two should the Republicans have to worry about. Clinton is a formidable candidate and Rove knows it, I don't think he has any hidden reasons behind attacking.

Rove says Clinton is a powerful candidate BUT she's "fatally flawed".

Hmm, we think. We hate Rove, so we must do the opposite of what Rove thinks! Yes! That's the ticket!

Then, keeping this valuable piece of information in our minds come primary time, we elect Hillary because we want to foil Rove at all costs!

It's brilliant!

What a genius that Rove is. It's no wonder he beat the Democrats time and time again.

surrounded him. Smelly drunk.