That's the implications of his wife's latest media pimping.  He would be nothing in this campaign without her.

First comes this video add, where she lauds his unbelievable toughness:

A lot of that is probably referring to his being a lawyer, and all the lawsuits he brought.  Toughness and fighting for others made him a very wealthy man.

But she also noted his being a better candidate for women:

The Salon Interview: Elizabeth Edwards

Another famous spouse has been in the headlines in recent days, of course. But while former President Bill Clinton was busy telling Iowa and New Hampshire audiences that his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, has the experience to be president, Elizabeth Edwards' pitch seems to be that her husband has the guts to make the radical changes a president should be ready to make in 2009, after eight years of the Bush debacle. On Saturday night, at the end of a long day of campaigning, she curled up in light-blue pajamas made of environmentally friendly bamboo for an hourlong interview in her hotel room. She hit Hillary Clinton particularly hard, arguing that John Edwards is, in fact, the better candidate for women: "She's just not as vocal a women's advocate as I want to see. John is."

One of the groups I belong to ejected a member who had posted radical posts that were out of the topic, immigration.  I don't like such ugliness.  I actually engaged in a lengthy debate as to why, in a group devoted to Immigration, he posted an anti semitic Gun Control article along with one of the foulest pieces of photoshop I have seen.

His response was essentially that guns are a core right and taking them away opens the door for more abuses, like amnesty.  Oh and it wasn't offensive according to him.

Opinions vary.

The point of my posts to the group was that allowing tangential debates like that distract from the core issues of illegal immigration.

Ken Schram also is upset about the distractions to the debate, but he in his paranoia sees the Snark in every shadow.