MCCAIN'S DOCTRINE, EDWARDS' GUTS. I'm not sure how far John Edwards is going to get in his presidential bid -- what he ought to do is shake up the race by joining Al Gore right now, thereby pairing the better of the two presidential nominees and the better of the two vice presidential nominees from the last two contests -- but so far at least his labeling of the Iraq war's escalation as "McCain's Doctrine" is very smart politics. Full credit to Edwards for pointing out that McCain is one of the big losers of the 2006 midterms, and for (finally) attempting to make his former fellow senator pay for it in terms of long-overdue reputational damage.
--Tom Schaller
