IS EDWARDS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OR NOT?
John Edwards has succeeded in making this a 2 man race, for now. It is time toask himself if he actually wants to be President. If he does, he needs to explain why he's the better man to represent the Democrats. This friendly, "John Kerry's a good man" talk isn't going to do it for him. He has to say why he is better, and part of that explanation must include why John Kerry is worse. Right now, it sounds like Edwards is running for Vice President, but he won't be selected by Kerry because Kerry will select someone who can deliver a red state. Edwards is no lock to do that. If he's serious, it is time to stop running for Vice President, or stop running all together.

Honestly, I thought Edwards was finished when he lost Virginia and Tennessee, but then his rhetoric became more shrill. He ratcheted the "two Americas" talk up to full class warfare pitch. How dare those corporations make money! He added more attacks on free trade. And it played well among the Democrat faithful. But to push that ball across the goal line, he's going to have to start hitting. Finesse won't do it, he'll have to get down and dirty. I bet Kerry understands this, and look for him to start hitting Edwards more, probably starting with his experience.

PAT BUCHANAN ENDORSES JOHN EDWARDS
Well, not quite. But the biggest laugh I've had watching the big game tonight was Pat's giddiness at Edwards' showing, and his debate advice was delivered with the joy only Pat can feel when we advises Edwards to attack Kerry, saying: "J'accuse! You supported NAFTA, GATT and the WTO!" Pat's got a candidate he thinks is his kind of isolationist. Now, if Edwards only comes out against gay marriage, Pat will be swooning.

THE REAL JFK
And one final thing. Something I don't think the Democrats really understand. Kerry tries to evoke Jack Kennedy's memory, tonight actually saying that he is "the man accompanying Teresa around the country" in a pitiful, dorky effort to echo Jack and Jackie in Paris. But Edwards can win in November, and I predict that if he does, you'll see the media (and the American people) fall in love with him, proclaim another "Camelot" and wax eloquent about the young President's vigor. I can only hope that the Democrats don't see this, or that if Edwards' succeeds, he's as conservative as the JFK of history and not as liberal as the JFK of Democratic memory.