Seven's heaven?

It was a good night for Democrats.

Best news: Lieberman is taking his toxic, go-nowhere, wannabe-Republican bullshit back to Connecticut, where I hope it will stay.

Second best news: Edwards stays alive. Now, I don’t care for him, personally. But he’s running a decent campaign with a positive message balanced by a cogent critique of Bush. He makes Democrats look good. And the longer the race is competitive, the longer the national media will pay attention, and the more people will see a bit of Edwards’ stump speech (or Kerry’s, or Clark’s, or Dean’s), the farther Bush’s poll numbers will fall, and the harder it will be for him to bring down his $200 million hammer. It will hurt if the race goes undecided all the way to the convention, but that aside, the later Kerry gets to 50.1% of delegates the better.

Third best: Clark and Dean are probably still alive, too. They both need to lay off the meaningless negativity—criticizing Kerry for raising money? Give me a break—and get back to full time the Bush bashing. That’s the best contribution they can make at this point. Clark, for example, should be all AWOL all the time. He should shove that story right down Peter Jennings’ throat, while Dean beats him with a copy of Bush’s ridiculous budget “plan.”

Over all, it’s just about exactly what I was hoping for.

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