Dave “Mudcat” Saunders is the “Rural Strategist” for the John Edwards Presidential Campaign. If you want to know what a “Rural Strategist” is, just listen to Mudcat speak and that says it all. This guy is no-nonsense and in your face when it comes telling you what he thinks is wrong with both Democrats and Republicans.
Named for the baseball pitcher “Mudcat” Grant, Saunders can be controversial, but there is nothing phony about this guy. In “Foxes in the Henhouse”, co-written with Steve Jarding, Mudcat says his contribution was the cuss words. I believe him! And, I like him.
Mudcat is an experienced political strategist having worked on the 2001 gubernatorial campaign in Virginia of Mark Warner and the 2006 senatorial campaign of Jim Webb. Both successful.
He agrees with me (or I agree with him) that we need to get the money and lobbyists out of politics or they are going to kill us. One thing he did say that I had not thought about was: “Lawyers are everyman’s lobbyist.” It is true. Lawyers lobby for justice and special interests one person at a time. Have you hugged your lawyer today?
Actually, I believe we need more lawyers in both the state legislature and in Congress. Better and fairer laws were written when lawyers were more involved in the legislative process. Some of the crap the Republicans in Georgia have written is proof that a business degree or entrepreneurial success, doesn’t translate into good laws which are fair to everyone.
I am supporting John Edwards for two main reasons. First, he has the character qualities I want in a President. As a lawyer, he knows how to deal with, work thru and solve problems. He has seen to good and the bad of this world. Everytime a lawyer takes a case, particularly when he represents an injured person he is declaring “I believe in America, I believe the system can work.” Lawyers often have to put their money where their mouth is. Everyday they live optomism and faith in truth and what is right. If you don’t think this about your lawyer, you just don’t have the right one.
The second and most important reason I support Edwards is that I think he is electable. History suggests that Southern Democrats are electable. I think he can beat Fred Thompson who I fully expect to be Republican nominee.
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