Remember when Edwards was running, and he kept saying how he was going to "fight" for us?
He was going to fight the republicans. He was going to fight big business. He was going to fight the lobbyists.
You know how Clinton says we've got to vote for her because she's a fighter? How she's been through the wars, the battles. How she's taken the opposition's best punches and lived to tell about it? How she'll go into the White House on day one and stand up to the Republicans and get things done?
Well. Bullshit.
I remember not too long ago, there was a guy running for the highest office in my land. He was a tough guy. He had experience. He said he was going to take on the Republicans. He said he was going to take on big business. He said he'd make the lobbyists cry.
He got swept up into office promising to destroy our opponents and usher in an era of powerhouse, take-no-prisoner Democratic politics.
A little over a year later, we're still waiting.
A little over a year later, we look back and see that promising to fight the whole world doesn't work.
A little over a year later, we see that promising to destroy your opponents doesn't exactly make them agreeable to the notion.
A little over a year later, his approval rating in the bluest of blue states is at George W Bush levels.
He was a fighter.
He was a tough guy.
He was the "steamroller."
He is Elliot Spitzer
A crippled governor who picked every fight he could, and lost virtually all of them because when all you do is fight, there's no room for making friends and accomplishing things.
Politics is a lot like having sex with the least attractive person you can find. Sure, you're going to hate the experience, and the offspring you produce will be ugly, but it's the only way to continue the cycle and ensure the population sustains itself.
Don't send a fighter to do a lover's job.