Although I will vote for him if he is on the eventual ticket, during the primaries I do not support John Edwards because when he is pushed to the wall, he reverts to Southern regional arrogance.

2004: "You need someone on the ticket who looks like me, talks like me"

This is code language for "you can't win without a Southerner on the ticket becasue Southerners are so prejudiced that location trumps everything." If Southerners are that ignorant and xenophobic, let's figure out a way to win without them

2008: "We don't need the politics of Chicago or New York"

Question: Is Edwards saying that the politics of Florida (Jeb Bush and Kathryn Harris in 2000), Georgia (Saxby Chambliss and his smearing of a war hero), South Carolina (Strom Thurmond), North Carolina (Jesse Helms), Louisiana (Huey Long), and Texas (Karl Rove, GW Bush) are cleaner than Chicago or New York? I beg to differ.

Unless John Edwards grows up and becomes a national candidate instead of primarily a regional candidate, he will always remain in the second tier.