A commenter in another diary wrote about the Edward's $400 haircut story and said:
...but this is the kind of thing that should not
have happened from an anti-poverty candidate
In some ways this is true, but any presidential candidate is not poor, so will be subject to something being found if someone is looking to find something. And obviously the reporters were looking for something.
I would like you to consider this possibility. The Republicans learned new campaign tactics from Karl Rove. They used tactics that were totally unexpected by Democrats and, sometimes, we still don't know how to deal with them. This happened all the time to the Democratic candidates in at least the last two election cycles and we still have not developed a good defense. Whining about it doesn't help. You have to understand the strategy.
Rove taught the Republicans and the media to attack a candidate for his/her strengths not weaknesses. This sounds counter-intuitive but it is very effective.
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