The Case for Edwards

Who's Kerry's Veep choice?

Pfft. Probably Edwards.

At least one pundit is making a case for John Edwards.

I'm going to go out on a limb to predict that John Edwards is Kerry's VP pick. Let me walk you through how I've determined this.

Over the past few years, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce here in Washington has been very vocal about reducing the number of frivolous lawsuits....Normally, the Chamber would stay out of the limelight and refrain from endorsing one candidate for the White House or the other (though they'd probably support one). However, if Kerry pick a class action trial lawyer like Edwards, the Chamber will oppose Kerry's candidacy...And John Kerry just threw down the gauntlet against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

I can't recall any Democratic Presidential candidate openly taunting the Chamber like that so early in an election...John Kerry is picking public fights with this organization even before he is officially nominated.

That means that Kerry knows that his pick for VP is so objectionable to the Chamber (and business in general) that he can expect no "live-and-let-live" approach from the business community. He is starting the fight he knows to be in the works...but he's doing it on his own terms.