With Edwards In, The Shadow Campaign Kicks Into Higher Gear

This might be the first election ever where the VP candidate does the bulk, qualitatively and quantitatively, of the campaigning. Jonathan Chait has an idea that just might, in fact probably would, work:

In fact, here's my ideal plan for the Kerry campaign. At an upcoming rally, an anti-Kerry protestor starts to burn an American flag. Kerry leaps down from the podium and starts strangling the protestor with his bare hands, then hurls him to the ground and rescues the flag. In the course of putting out the fire, he suffers minor burns that, the campaign announces, will force him to be hospitalized and inaccessible to the media and the public until mid-October. In the meantime, Edwards is dispatched to present the Democratic message for the next three and half months.