Apparently wanna-be Veep, John Edwards, is quite the girly man. Comedian Harry Shearer has a video clip of the Senator emeritus from North Carolina primping his hair before an appearance.

"For a guy who's been known derisively to the Bush crowd as the Breck girl," observes Shearer, vice presidential candidate John Edwards seems "way too interested in his hair." He tries to straighten it with his fingers. A makeup technician approaches with a comb, but the senator likes it just so and does the combing himself. He signals he's ready for hair spray by closing his eyes expectantly, like a child. Then Edwards and the technician straighten a little more with their fingers. Please don't tell me that thing in his hand is a compact. Oh, dear. It is.

If anyone ever sees me peering into a compact, you have my permission to shoot me dead right there.