http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript334_full.html
Kevin Phillips has no love for the Bush family, and he tells Kerry how to win, if he wants to, but it's a challenge:
MOYERS: They play to win. Is Kerry tough enough to take them on?
PHILLIPS: You know, my reaction as somebody... we go back maybe to a tougher period of politics. But I look at the people who fought the Bushes the way the Bushes deserve to be fought. I'm talking about Republicans like Ross Perot and John McCain. When they ran, I mean, Ross Perot said that George Bush, Sr. gave Saddam Hussein the green light in Iraq.
John McCain accused the Bush's of, you know, colluding with Bob Jones University and all of that sort of stuff. I'm waiting for a Democrat has the guts of the Republicans who fought the Bushes. If the Democrats don't have that kind of guts, they've got nobody to blame but themselves for losing elections.
MOYERS: It seems to me watching the race as a journalist that Kerry is waiting for a walk. He's got... it's the ninth inning, the bases are loaded and he thinks the other guy's gonna put him on the base with balls.
PHILLIPS: Well, I've watched too many campaigns. The Nixon campaign back in 1968 and you remember, the last month, Nixon thought he was gonna have a walk in September after the Democratic Convention. So he didn't really wanna say much of anything. And then it starts to come undone in October.
And he's scrambling. And some of us wrote memos. But it just never came out. I don't know why exactly. He was lucky he won by a couple of hundred thousand votes. And a lot of people do this. Thomas E. Dewey did it in 1948. He was a winner. He didn't have to fight. So Truman, you know, kicked him in the slacks.
Kerry is not the man ahead here. What may be ahead in the guise of a candidacy is the old Republican methodology basically of getting out there and attacking and defining your opponent. And if he doesn't understand that that methodology is right there in the control room this year, he can lose.