Why John Edwards must not only be defeated, but destroyed

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Edwards: It's Not the Haircut
Taylor Marsh
7.19.2007

It's the message Republicans are scared of, so the $400 haircut was a way in to scuttle the man. It also provided the opportunity to burnish the image before the man could reveal the steel of his character. But Edwards handed it to his adversaries so he's going to have to get himself out of this. It's the gift that may yet sink his candidacy, especially since the American voter is akin to a pre-pubescent teen more interested in dirt than policy plans for the people. We are a scandal nation, so we get the president we deserve, though the 2006 election offered a glimmer of hope. It's that tiny thread Edwards must now grab.

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John Edwards is different. He talks of poverty, peace and something beyond perpetual war, which completely flummoxes Republicans. The truth is that the reason Republicans want Edwards gone is that they can't attack his message, because they don't understand it, are even scared of it, dread facing it. The haircut is easier to ridicule, as they hope to capitalize on the juvenile mind set of the average American voter who is too busy working two jobs and is willing to hate anyone so rich, good looking and who has succeeded where they have failed. Edwards is a wealthy man who came from nothing who is now making his life's work the poor; people to whom Republicans can't relate, but to whom they continually sell their policy propaganda to, but which will never set them free. Nothing is scarier than the thought of the poor rising up and realizing that the talk of the American dream through Republican policies (and the cheerleading of talk radio) will never reach that far down to them. If the truth be told to the masses, Republicans would never win another election and wingnut radio hypocrisy would be finished forever. That's why Edwards must not only be defeated, but destroyed; like Kerry the veteran turned against war had to not only be stopped, but the symbol he represented obliterated and neutralized. Antithetical notions to Republican thinking are not allowed to thrive in the American dialogue, and the messenger will not survie to sell his story.

Republicans know how to fight on war turf. However, they haven't a clue how to battle someone who's talking about the poor and that terrorism isn't some talking point "bumper sticker," but something we can tackle through our own actions and policies. Looking inwards isn't a GOP strong suit. They point outward and blame others. Edwards doesn't blame anyone, but instead searches for solutions, even if it means picking up a hammer and fixing the problem himself.

Edwards is asking us all to search our souls and unearth results.

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So on the wingnuts drone about the $400 haircut, about the Edwards "mansion" and about his wealth, which if he were a Republican they would praise, raise up as example, with chants of his name heard everywhere. However, Republicans can't have anyone rise up from being poor to succeed who doesn't follow their path, but instead is a champion of the poor. It threatens their very existence.

Edwards is a self-made man who made good and because he's a Democrat he must not only be ridiculed, but he also must be destroyed. He's too good to be true and a $400 haircut has now made him vulnerable, because the press has also decided to help take him down. It's what America does to its heroes; the men and women who rise up against the odds to make good and go far. As much as we love to see heroes rise, we love to see the good guy fall.


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