Dick Morris isn’t often right, but he is today.

John Edwards has done a great service to this primary campaign–heck, on both sides–with his powerful and passionate message about inequality: economic as well as political inequality, and how the two are fundamentally linked. He is surely entitled to a key job—Attorney General at the very least—in an Obama Administration, if Obama wins the nomination and the presidency. I wouldn’t mind seeing the two pair up right now as a ticket and run together through the rest of the primaries, for that matter.

But he should bow out after South Carolina, at the latest.

Oh: And I’m not sure that Edwards splits the anti-Hillary vote; I think there are some people supporting him who would go over to her side, though on balance I think Morris is right that his departure would help Obama.

–Tom Schaller

Thomas F. Schaller is an associate professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and author of The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House.