Dueling over a warm bucket of spit (The VP debate)

Tonight the men who would be king-in-waiting sat down for a friendly chat. It wasn't lost on me that these two made a far more positive impression than their ticketmates did on Thursday in Florida. Cheney was intelligent, articulate and well-studied, everything you want a Republican to be. Edwards was passionate, enthusiastic and, well, out of his element. Much like his party. I found the responses of the cable networks to be far more interesting than the debate itself. CNN's Larry King had a panel that enthusiastically declared John Edwards the winner. Fox was just as quick to pay that honor to Cheney. I turned to MSNBC for the tie-break and their rather moderate to liberal panel headed by Chris Matthews seemed to agree that the night belonged to Cheney. As for me, I wish Cheney was at the top of the Republican ticket, I might be more inclined to vote for them. But the truth is that after the election, Edwards will go back to North Carolina and Cheney will secreted away to his undisclosed location and we'll all forget about both of them.