Unlikely scenario
Does savvy (former) political operative George Stephanopoulos really buy this story he claims he's heard from several people who worked on John Edwards' last presidential campaign?
They were going to sabotage the candidate if it looked like he might win the Democratic nomination for fear the Rielle Hunter secret would get out and sink Edwards in the general election.
Baloney. That claim sounds as phony as Edwards' denial that he's Rielle's baby daddy.
You'd have to believe they continued to work for a campaign they hoped would lose, even while they were still raising money from gullible supporters and otherwise promoting their charlatan of a candidate. It doesn't make sense. Why wouldn't they quit and go work for a candidate they could trust?
With Elizabeth Edwards' recent media blitz raising questions about her judgment in supporting her husband's campaign despite her (incomplete) knowledge of his affair, there's been renewed interest in old assertions from the Hillary Clinton campaign that she would have captured the nomination if Edwards had not run.
Who knows? That's water under the bridge.
She's got an important post in the Obama administration, and Edwards is political history. To his former adoring fans, the sooner forgotten the better.
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I recently read a great column by Kyle Smith concerning the Edwards. It began as follows:
"John and Elizabeth Edwards have proven themselves the perfect match. On the one hand, you've got a lying, hypocritical, power-hungry narcissist. And then there's her husband."
It got better from there!
Posted on May 12, 2009 11:30 AM
This is a classic case of retroactively unnecessary hypothetical virtue (the kind you were about to display when events made the display unnecessary). Congratulations on your baloney identification.
So many people today will just believe anything they read, no matter how preposterous. Today's paper, for example, claimed that second-hand smoke is the third-leading cause of death!
Posted on May 12, 2009 1:17 PM
[Slick Willie Wife] got an important post in the Obama administration, and Edwards is political history. To his former adoring fans, the sooner forgotten the better* Doug
Please! You are the classic hypocrite by saying " sooner forgotten the better" again and again! Are you on the payroll of the National Enquirer to keep this soap opera going?
This Country is going to hell and we keep getting this sorry Edwards story over and over! The public does not care nor will they buy anymore meanstream establishment Pop Culture papers to save them from the internet and Chapter 11.
Posted on May 12, 2009 2:00 PM
Thanks, Brian.
We meant to call secondhand smoke the third-leading preventable cause of death.
I understand that what is termed preventable is subject to interpretation.
Connie, as someone who was emphatically not a fan of John Edwards, I'm not promising to forget.
But I do promise not to write about him again if he disappears from public view and doesn't return.
If he's indicted for something, he's fair game.
Posted on May 12, 2009 2:29 PM