Elizabeth The Great?
From today's Hotline:
Is E. Edwards helping or hurting her husband's WH campaign?
-- She emerged from WH '04 w/legions of admirers, and drew respect and warm condolences from every corner 3/22 when she announced her cancer had returned. But since then she has evolved into her husband's chief attacker, launching salvos at HRC and Obama that others (esp. would-be first ladies) wouldn't dare.
-- In today's NY Daily News, she continues to hit Clinton: "She's wrong on how it is we get univ. health care, and her own experience should have taught her that." The Clintons "lost the fight" in '93, she said, because they used their "pol. capital" on NAFTA. Their "stick-to-it-iveness ... wasn't there."
-- Quite notably, the NYDN says, Camp Clinton "declined to respond to Edwards' broadsides."
-- Of course they did. They know full well that E. Edwards holds a special place in voters' hearts. She's virtually untouchable in the WH'08 debate. The question is, did the Edwards camp, recognizing that reality, goad her into launching these broadsides, potentially driving up her own negs? Can she be her husband's biggest asset if she, herself, is viewed as polarizing?
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