More Metaphors: Horses and Hoops

The political metaphors never stop. Apparently, John Edwards doesn’t just generate “tidal waves of change”; he is also a horse. From Under the Dome, which has a reporter with Edwards in New Hampshire today:

Edwards was introduced by his wife, Elizabeth, who was joined by daughter Cate. Elizabeth compared her husband to the famous come-from-behind racehorse, Seabiscuit. And John Edwards liked it. ... “We are Seabiscuit,” he hollered.

Being from ACC country, perhaps Edwards should have reached for basketball instead of horseracing. Like Bill Richardson did. Matt Bai of The New York Times pokes fun at Richardson’s dubious claim, after finishing at 2 percent in Iowa, that he had “made it to the Final Four.“ Bai writes:

Well, yeah, I guess that makes sense, if the Final Four consisted of Duke, North Carolina, Florida and the Maharishi University of Management.

Reminds me of something an Edwards adviser told me yesterday, describing the political saturation of ordinary life in Iowa in the days leading up the caucuses:

The best North Carolina analogy is kind of like going to the ACC tournament. And on every corner, you see a fan for a different candidate instead of a fan for a different team.

Is Mike Huckabee this year’s George Mason?