Reply #71: I think it is a sign

[PATRICK]

that the dem leaders, especially the ones frustrated by the Clinton wing approach, have seen her cause as wounded and dangerous for Dems in the fall and are moving ahead of the polls and people to boost the current alternative. Edwards would have to earn that spot but the intent I think is to shut the door on Clinton by the pros who know better and want more. It might be well more pragmatic than Gore's attempt to fight the establishment hit on Dean.

Not everyone does things just to be stupid and spiteful toward your candidate. I think there are simply greater political realities at stake. It could end up helping Edwards, somewhere down the long line, but this is to keep Clinton from reinventing a November win inevitability that many pols think has been shown not to be the case. Long before the numbers start showing, yet it is too late to stop.

You might see a gradual wave of such endorsements.