Advice To RNC

[Annie]

Dick Morris:

Excerpts:

http://www.thehill.com/morris/070704.aspx

Dick Morris
The Political Life

Look for the dirty laundry in Edwards’s closet

....The North Carolina senator and former trial lawyer leaned heavily on his former peers for campaign funding. More than half of his donations came from trial lawyers, and 22 of his top 25 contributions came from his former colleagues at the bar.

While trial lawyers will not win any popularity contests, their support of Edwards, per se, will not do him much harm.

Trial lawyers are no less popular than the oil-company types who fund so much of the Bush campaign. But there is a strong indication that many of these funds may have been contributed illegally.

....There is evidence that Edwards may have circumvented the campaign-finance law by bundling contributions from law clerks and paralegals who did not actually make the donations from their own funds.

....One or two illegal contributions will not bring Edwards down, but it is easy to speculate that his donor list may be rife with such tales.....

....Edwards could blow up in Kerry’s face, just as Geraldine Ferraro did in Walter Mondale’s and Thomas Eagleton did in McGovern’s. People look to the vice-presidential selection as an indicator of what kind of appointments a presidential candidate would make should he win the election. Edwards sends all the right signals — a Southerner, a moderate, a charismatic and caring senator. But should he be tripped up over campaign donations, he could become a big liability very, very quickly.

The Edwards designation opens the door for the Bush negative researchers — and they are really good at exploiting such opportunities. Really good.

 

[dilloduck]

I hope your right but it will still depend on the media spin. Most likely they would accuse the GOP of "dirty tactics" and if researchers found "dirt" they would deny it's there with the vehemence they deny the existence on WMDs.

This time the GOP needs to get down on the level of the Dems to win.