John Edwards blundered onto forces he didn't quite understand by hiring Amanda Marcotte and Melissa Mcewan and demonstrated the sharp contradictions the Democratic Party will have to face going into 2008.
Unlike a Republican candidate for President, who can count on the disciplined support from the religious right, any Democratic candidate has to do a delicate balancing act. He has to to run a campaign that will appease the anti-war and secular grassroots of the Democratic Party, even while assuring the media and arms industry elites that once elected he won't threaten their interests.
John Edwards realized that no battle plan survives the first contact with the enemy.
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