Pat Buchanan says Howard Dean is likely to be the Democratic nominee. The folks at National Review and elsewhere agree. Others say it will be Wesley Clark, or John Edwards.

But I say it will be John Kerry, the buck-toothed senator from Massachusetts. I suspect he’ll choose John Edwards as his running mate.

Going a little further out on this limb, I say George Bush will beat John Kerry Nov. 2, 2004, with 51 percent of the vote, and 286 electoral votes.