John Edwards has been relegated to an after-thought these last couple of weeks, and after Florida's beauty contest last night, he saw the hard political handwriting and will reportedly make an exit today - symbolically - in New Orleans. The wingnuts rejoice over the defeat of the most liberal of the remaining Democrats:
He won’t be missed. Not the cloying, braying sanctimony. Not the hypocritical Fox-bashing. Not the oleaginous class warfare. Not the odious politicization of Memorial Day.
That was the odious Michele Malkin. But she's got it wrong - those are exactly the reasons Edwards will be missed.
I don't know who his supporters go to, or whether he will endorse Obama or Clinton or neither. But I know which party gets to keep his ideas, and that's a good thing.
UPDATE: Somebody smart just told me something I have to repeat: for the first time in American history, the nominee of a major party won't be a white male. Obvious, yeah. But when you say it aloud...
