What is that Bill Cosby quote about success?
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
I feel like maybe John Edwards thinks that he cannot bring moderates and Southerners along for the ride if he appears liberal. He has to speak truth to power and trust that his Clintonesque charisma will remind people why they DO believe in liberalism.
Another good quote along similar lines goes something like this:
"If you want to avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
albeit on different lines and in direct contrast to this post's theme:
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
