Silky: We should probably spend some more time talking about my hair
posted at 1:08 pm on June 25, 2007 by Allahpundit
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From Coulter to Fox News to his wife’s health, there’s no demon too great or small that Edwards won’t attempt to exploit for a little extra campaign cash. With second-quarter fundraising totals due in five days and no one having conveniently beaten up on him lately, what’s a pretty pony to do?
Easy. Go back to the hair.
[W]hy in the world would Jonathan Prince, Edwards’ deputy campaign manager, have sent a fundraising e-mail that draws more attention to the haircut? Titled “Haircuts And Hatchet Jobs,” the e-mail solicitation blasts “political mercenaries and the chattering class” for attacking the messenger in personal ways because they don’t like his message.
“Like many of you, I’ve been with John since 2004,” Prince wrote. “The same folks who are attacking him now went after him then. … Last time they attacked his hair; this time it’s his haircut. But it’s the same sad game.”
But as a PR move, the pitch is foolhardy. It keeps the haircut story alive another day — or week, or month. It’s also questionable as a fundraising tactic. While the e-mail might motivate Edwards supporters to back their candidate with more bucks to fight his enemies, it also might make them think twice about bankrolling a candidate who can afford $400 haircuts.
He’s down three points in the new Rasmussen poll out today, but that’s not the important number. Here’s the important number. Quite a shortfall for a target that’s only one-third of the amount Hillary raised in the first quarter. His campaign will limp on until January since he’s banking on winning Iowa and then riding that momentum to a national upset, but Obama’s already moving to cut him off at the pass: his campaign released its first two TV ads today, both of which will start running this week in the state. You can watch here, but be forewarned that they’re only marginally more exciting than the Republican crap we’ve been seeing.
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He can always chase more ambulances for money.
countywolf on June 25, 2007 at 1:13 PM
Lest we forget, he was Kerry’s 2004 running mate. Maybe this time he’ll be Gore’s.
Freelancer on June 25, 2007 at 1:17 PM
allah, whatever happened to the My little pony/ my little edwards pic??? that was great!!!
gberez on June 25, 2007 at 1:18 PM
Hi ah’m John Edwahds. Ann Coulter just text messaged me calling me a homo and Fox is trahin to get mah bahbah deported fo giving 400 dollah haih cuts. Wont you please give me monah so I can superglue the two americuhs togethah with the adhesive of caring?
Dash on June 25, 2007 at 1:23 PM
Hi.
I’m a graduate of the Trent Lott School of How To Be A Tin-Eared Politician.
Sincerly,
John Edwards
Pee-Eth: Duthn’t my hair look jutht thooper?
thirteen28 on June 25, 2007 at 1:34 PM
First post on Hot Air! SWEET!
John Edward’s new palacial home is about 10 minutes from my house. It must be nice to be retired and have all that time on your hands to do nothing but ask for money (he already said ‘vote for me and I’ll raise your taxes’ - how smart can he be?).
Edwards has no shot of winning a political office in NC. The Democrats want someone who is like Kennedy - it ain’t Edwards. Richard Burr is a good (new) Senator from NC. Elizabeth Dole is a good seat filler for a Conservative in NC.
But we have not found a replacement for the great and honorable, and locally revered, Sen Jesse Helms yet. It’s hard to believe that Helms and Edwards came from the same state.
If Edwards cared 1/10th as much about Americans as he did about himself, he’d probably make a pretty good candidate.
ThackerAgency on June 25, 2007 at 1:41 PM
So when an unborn fetus gives John Edwards campaign advice, does he then run it past this guy?
saint kansas on June 25, 2007 at 1:47 PM
Oh silky don’t worry I am going to vote for you in the calif primary, if the moon bats want you they can have you. Just so I can watch you be torn apart in the general election.
Mojack420 on June 25, 2007 at 2:12 PM
Awesome! I love it! Senor Graham-nesty (D) is mucho loco, and its time he stops thumbing his nose at the citizens of the U.S. I think he has gotten to the point where he cares more about his special interest groups then the people that put him into office. Too bad for him, because he is up for re-election in less then 18 months.
Here is his contact info so that you can flood his office with complaints:
Lindsey Graham:
Washington, D.C.: 202-224-5972
Greenville, SC: 864-250-1417
Columbia, SC: 803-933-0112
ericire12 on June 25, 2007 at 2:24 PM
Why doesn’t he try raising money by telling the story about the time his daddy took him to a hair salon and had to tell the stylist they had to leave when she came to give him the shampoo.
srhoades on June 25, 2007 at 2:50 PM
I’d like to see Silky on a panel with Michael Moore discussing the high cost of health insurance and how frivolous lawsuits are forcing doctors out of business. Perhaps, the Pony could channel a dead child for Michael and then maybe the Rotund One would get a clue.
Mallard T. Drake on June 25, 2007 at 2:56 PM
Since the silky pony is the frilly frivolity of this list of posts, it seems the most suitable locale for a hoooweee that registration here is open, and I can celebrate now being OFFICIALLY full of hot air.
A rare open registration earlier over at Little Green Footballs - kudos to Charles at LGF, and Allapundit here - the army against the “fairness” doctrine is on the march!!
GGMac on June 25, 2007 at 4:49 PM
Am I the only one who can’t see a picture of Edwards without;
1. Thinking of the two dimbulbs in NYC who, after being busted for planting those flashing “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” gadgets, spent all their time jabbering about their hair styles; or
2. Hearing “I Feel Pretty, Oh So Pretty” running in my subconscious.
(P.S.- I really, really hate that song.)
cheers
eon
eon on June 25, 2007 at 5:39 PM
If Burr votes yes for cloture tomorrow, he’s dead to me.
Dudley Smith on June 25, 2007 at 5:47 PM
Senator Haircut strikes again!
Gatordoug on June 25, 2007 at 6:23 PM
I just love a rich, Socialist. He bemoans the “great divide” between the “rich and the middle class” … yet he lives in a 20,000+ sq. ft. home, and gets his $400 haircuts. I guess that the seeds of Socialism are illiteracy and ignorance and, now, hypocrisy. Hillary Clinton, we know what you are, too. Oh yes, we know what you are, too.
OhEssYouCowboys on June 25, 2007 at 6:26 PM
Of all the Democratic candidates, Edwards strikes me as the most clueless. I mean the guy thinks “war on Terrir” is a bumper sticker.
I just call him Senator Haircut. It suits his intellectual depth, or lack thereof.
Gatordoug on June 25, 2007 at 6:27 PM
Barak ‘my butt’ Obama. Give all of us a break.
mjkazee on June 25, 2007 at 6:56 PM
Empty suit, empty head (albeit with expensive wrapping), what more could you want in a Dim presidential nominee? I’m surprised he’s not higher up in the polls.
PowWow on June 25, 2007 at 6:58 PM
Excuse me That’s BARACK ‘my butt’. (sp)
mjkazee on June 25, 2007 at 6:58 PM
Why is it that every photo I see of this poof, he looks like he’s talking out of the side of his mouth?
Did he have a stroke or something?
thejackal on June 25, 2007 at 7:12 PM
When did spending $400 on a haircut become a “trivial thing?” That’s more than many in Edwards’ other America have to spend on groceries for a month!
I guess I just don’t understand how expensive it is to campaign as a populist these days.
highhopes on June 25, 2007 at 8:24 PM
Having a Republican in his commerical might work in a general election but not in the dem primary. The leftists will hate him for it, and any of those old Reagan Republicans who haven’t switched parties by now are already voting for him anyhow. Who is he going for?
Dollayo on June 26, 2007 at 5:13 AM