Remember Phil's commitment talk? How about when McCain was attractive, via a Real Clear Politics interview? Bredesen really needs to stop pussyfooting around with it and just pull a Bloomberg already.

“What he’s got to do is get more specific — not so much in terms of putting out white papers — but really explaining to some of these undecided voters why is your life going to be better if you elect me,” Bredesen said. “I’m not talking about hope and change and stuff.”

That rhetoric has energized the Democratic base, Bredesen, but it hasn’t reached “that middle 10 or 15 percent, who may be D’s or R’s in their registration, but they’re certainly willing to go either way” and will likely decide Obama’s contest with Republican John McCain.

“It’s a different message for them,” Bredesen said. The Obama campaign should reach out to them by emphasizing “just one or two things” he’ll do to improve the plight of people who shop at Wal-Mart.

It's getting somewhat redundant, no? Although, I sort of wonder if Obama were to take a legitimate detour into Populist Hillary territory, whether that might alleviate some of Bredesen's political hesitation. While I've argued before that Bredesen's looking at political expediency for a "progressive" candidate he know will lose in TN, maybe a speech like Hillary belted out last night, heavy on policy and big on the little man, would warm the cockles of his icy, cold heart. (Link via Post Politics)

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