I Wrote This Post Over

at the Taylor Marsh website (correcting that "Democrat" Party typo, which is embarrassing):

Obama is dividing up the anti-Clinton vote and diverting votes away from the person who CAN win the GE, John Edwards. That is his WHOLE PURPOSE FOR RUNNING. Obama won't get the nomination, not even close. But by God, the powers-that-be in the Democratic Party are going to make damned sure Edwards doesn't get it, either.

The question that must be asked is why the national party leadership is insistent we lose in the fall by not allowing voters to pick a winner. Why is it John Edwards is being marginalized by the bigwigs of his own party (to say nothing of the media)? The answer is easy to explain: It is because the party leadership would rather lose the White House than lose the support of corporations and financial elites who have contributed tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to the Democratic Party in recent years. These days the Democratic Party is almost on par with the Republicans in terms of fundraising. The bigwigs are fearful that any economic populist candidate, no matter how appealing and electable to the electorate, could shut off that flow of cash. Clinton and Obama, as unelectable as they are in the GE, DO provide tons of cash for the party because of their "star power," and this cash helps Democrats downticket.

It is the ONLY explanation I can see for the party establishment to be so unsupportive of John Edwards while at the same time committing political suicide in the fall. No other explanation makes sense.