The Washington Times

The left is back. I don’t say this in relation to the Democratic convention in Boston, where, of course, in their heart of hearts, many of the delegates do indeed wish that their party could be more explicitly progressive in its appeal to American voters. The point of the Democratic convention will be to inject as much progressivism into the debate as the party’s wise men and women think is prudent in relation to appealing to an electorate that is not especially left-wing in outlook.

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The Washington Times

Where is the John Edwards surge in the polls for John Kerry? Democrats want to know. What happened? With a choice for veep as brilliant as Mr. Edwards, shouldn’t Mr. Kerry have gotten a bigger bump than the small-to-nil effect the announcement actually produced?

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The Washington Times

John Edwards may be the best politician of his generation. Never mind what he brings to John Kerry’s campaign for president in 2004. In an astonishingly small number of extraordinarily acute political moves, Mr. Edwards has established himself as the single most likely American to occupy the Oval Office one day [and here I include Mr. Kerry].

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The Washington Times

Does politics still have a slow season? If so, the Fourth of July weekend marks its official beginning. According to conventional wisdom, even in an election year, summer is no time to try to drive a political message. People aren’t interested. But does that old conventional wisdom adequately take into account the intensity of feeling this year? That’s the proposition we are likely to test this summer.

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