ED CONE has some advice for John Kerry:

John Kerry needs to lay out a serious plan for exiting Iraq and fighting terror before he gets much further into campaigning for president. If he doesn’t get it right, he doesn’t deserve the job. . . .

A simply-stated, direct, and credible policy on Iraq and the war on terror would establish Kerry as a viable alternative to Bush. Without one, the race might as well be over already.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Mark Kleiman has a Kerry speech he’d like to see. I’d like to see it, too.