Kevin Sullivan

AG Edwards

Posted by Kevin Sullivan under Uncategorized

I could live with this.  After all, as Charles Krauthammer reminded us yesterday, John Edwards is not nearly as ideological as he would like the Democratic base to believe.  He’s an opportunist longing for position, and once he got that position, I foresee him being somewhat innocuous in the role. 

We need to rethink Justice in the first place, and what the role of the AG should be.  Maybe Edwards could bring enough spit and vinegar to shake the department up a bit.  Having a guy in the office who ran against the president could also prevent the the AG from reverting to lapdoggery.

UPDATE:

Michael questions my logic here, but my primary point is this: I don’t think Edwards would rock the boat all that much as AG, since I think his partisanship ends at the ballot box.  His message contradicts his limited record.  He’s running as Russ Feingold, minus the actual progressive record.  He did a lot to innocluate himself from such charges following 2004, but those gestures–such as his union work with SEIU in the hotel industry–were as obvious as a mack truck coming down an empty highway.

However, I think Justice needs to be turned upside down and shaken a bit anyway.  So if he did enter into the role as a reformer–or an activist–the Liberal in me sees this as a potentially positive thing, too.    

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