I haven't spent too much time thinking about who would be a good candidate to dethrone the Emporer, but this column makes a great case for John Edwards....

Dean vs. Edwards vs. Bush
Why I'm rooting for an Edwards surge.
By William Saletan
Updated Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 3:45 PM PT

A golden boy with a golden message

Unless we learn something awful about Howard Dean in the next several months, the Democratic race for president will probably come down to him and one other, more openly centrist candidate. If money, experience, and military service govern the decision, that candidate could be John Kerry. But there's one other candidate I can see filling the centrist slot, surviving the Dean insurgency, and giving President Bush a tougher fight. That candidate is John Edwards.

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