Ok, now I'm not alone in calling Edwards' Mr. Positive routine phony. This is Dan Conley - who worked as an Edwards precinct captain in Iowa.
" . . . Having said all this ... of course the Edwards "positive campaign" theme is just a tactic. He knows that sooner or later he'll need to go negative on someone. But anyone who is winning points for being positive would be a damn fool if he didn't milk it as long as possible. And any campaign with a hard charging "positive campaign" candidate closing on them would be foolish not to look for every morsel of information to indicate that the positive guy wasn't so nice. It's the nature of the game. I just think that this internal memo is pretty weak. If it had been a direct mail piece, the leaking campaign would be onto something. . . "
http://www.danconley.com/archives/000140.htm
What now you say, Edwards troops