Biden, on the way to his unstoppable coronation in the South Carolina primaries. Pablo Pardo: Biden's two rivals have no chance.

One of them, Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips, may go down in history as the perpetrator of one of the largest political suicides in memory. The other is Marianne Williamson, who could be defined as a self-help and parapsychology guru. Although it is almost axiomatic to say that American political life has deteriorated, she has not done so to the extent that someone like her can win a primary.