Dukakis campaign manager thinks Kerry needs a lawyer (Edwards)

This guy who has a Salon article (Dan Paine?) was making a fool of himself on Morning sedition this morning. he kept recommending kerry to be more like Dukakis ("Don't let W's attacks distracts him"). The usual pablum about courting the mythical undecided voter (by being more like W) and finally the direct plea for VP: the campaign is like a trial and edwards would prosecute Bush well.
Okey Dokey then.

Against taking advice from anyone involved in Dukakis's campaign? Geeze, a 17 point lead and he lost? Quick, run away from the light of Dan Paine, run away!

races. gave the other clichees anout the slow start, strong finish. The hosts of the showwere politely annoyed. They did ask if it wasn't Dukakis problem that he never responded to attacks. he replied that this is different - incumbent vs open race. kerry, according to this guy only has to stay in the race to win.

People don't usually vote out incumbents unless they are unhappy with them, and a candidate rarely overthrows an incumbent through attacks. If the voter likes the incumbent, the attacks don't stick. If the voter doesn't like the incumbent, the attacks aren't necessary, and can backfire and make the attacker seem mean, or desperate.

Kerry has the facts on his side, he should give a preponderance to the facts, and keep attacks to the minimum. And he's right about starting slow and finishing strong. That's what Clinton and Gore both did, too.

But there is a lot of flexibility in those rules, and that's where I'd question anyone in Dukakis's race. They did not handle the reins well, even though they had the right basic idea.

Kerry shouldn't attack randomly, and not often, either. But he does have to keep the heat on Bush. Right now, Bush is creating his own heat, so Kerry just has to sit back and warm his feet before the fire, maybe inconspicuously stoke it with a stick now and then when the fire is threatening to die down. But Kerry has to be ready to lunge.

A slow start doesn't mean no start. It means at least keeping pace. So far he's playing it all perfectly, but if he listens to this guy's advice, he may miss his chances.

I don't know what else to say, just ROFLMAO! I think your "Okey Dokey then" comment captures this perfectly.

:puke:

I was searching: Begala, Brazile, Snafulopagos - and kept thinking; nope! Even worse! Estritch does it!