[BlessedByLiberty]

You are correct - this puts Kerry and Edwards in a nice tight square box. They are going to be forced to alienate one or the other: their base or the middle.

Edwards will vote against the tax cuts - after all there are two Americas.

The fun for us will be watching Kerry-Edwards voting and then explaining why they voted the exact opposite of the way they promised they would vote. (Mush as they do now!)

[mwl1]

Edwards won't be the VP candidate with Kerry. Hillary won't allow it. She does not want the VP candidate on the losing ticket to shine; this person becomes the leading contender for president 4 years later.

The Clintons will insist on a loser on the bottom of the ticket, like Wesley Clark or Richard Gephardt.