Edwards is the New Kucinich [View All]

As the Edwards campaign continued to collapse into the new year, his campaign and his supporters are reminding me more and more of the vanity campaign of Dennis Kucinich.

It seems the cult of personality is just as strong, and its not at all uncommon to see posts extolling the virtues of Edwards as though he was some sort of messiah figure.

The trajectory of his campaign is following a similar path, especially now that Kucinich has dropped out and Edwards continues to turn in miserable showings at the polls. He has yet to win a single state, and it is doubtful that he will.

We are now at a point where Edwards has no path to the nomination and he is merely filling the sideshow void left in the campaign by Kucinich.

I predict that as the primaries slog on, Edwards support will collapse to a point where he no longer meets the 15% threshold in primaries for picking up delegates, and he will run around wasting everyone's time complaining about being excluded from debates ect. The fantasy scenario of Edwards playing kingmaker on a second ballot at the convention is nothing but a fantasy.

As he continues to perform poorly his contributions will dry, up he will be ignored, and he will continue his transformation into a latter day Dennis Kucinich in terms of relevance.

I suppose the only solace I take from the whole scenario is that John Edwards' time as a legitimate political figure is over. He wouldn't be a top tier candidate if he ran again in 2012 or 2016, however I'm sure Kucinich or some other darling of the far left will be right back to fill in the niche.