So John Edwards, pinned to the mat by the National Enquirer, has coughed up a confession that, yeah, while his wife Elizabeth was battling cancer, he really was, uh, "carrying on" with Rielle (not "Reille") Hunter, "but said that he did not love her."
Oh, well, that makes it quite okay then! It wasn't love, it was simply lust! Don't we all feel better? This is also known as throwing your mistress under the bus when the affair is exposed. Which, of course, any mistress with an IQ above a, well, mink's, would expect.
ABC News reports,
Edwards made a point of telling Woodruff that his wife's cancer was in remissionHow kind of John to remain faithful to Elizabeth as long as she wasn't dying. That makes it just a, you know, routine violation of the seventh Commandment rather than a really bad one, right?
when he began the affair with Hunter. Elizabeth Edwards has since been diagnosed
with an incurable form of the disease.
When certain questions about John's personal relationship with another woman surfaced during his primary campaign, Edwards denied the affair and so did his campaign spokespersons. But, say today's new reports, those people knew they were lying, too.
Did Edwards pay Rielle hush money?
Edwards denied paying any money to Hunter to keep her from going public but said"He said he would ask questions about any possible arrangement" having been made for payments. Yes, John Edwards is going to track down the people who paid off his horizontal friend (remember, he "didn't love her") in order to keep her quiet. Sort of reminds me of someone else's pledge to "find the real killers."
it was possible some of his friends or supporters may have made payments without
telling him.
Finally, Edwards denies being the father of Rielle's baby. If true (coff), then while Edwards was cheating on Elizabeth, Rielle was cheating on him. You just can't make this stuff up.
Here's a photo of John Edward's political future.But wait, you say. Other politicos - a lot of them, in fact - have treated their wives like yesterday's news and gone on to thrive politically. Let's see, the name of "John McCain" comes to mind. But there is one difference between McCain and, I would guess, all the others. McCain et. al. also had a lot of prior experience in the political world, with significant records of accomplishments, that Edwards entirely lacks.
McCain, it should also be noted, ditched his first wife well before he entered politics. Generally, the American people have been pretty forgiving of men's sins before they entered politics, unless the sins were very severe. Remember, Bill Clinton even admitted he had smoked dope in college and no one really cared. But John Edwards ditched his wife while he was actually running for president. And that fact will matter in a determinative fashion for his political future.
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The end of John Edwards, I don't thinks so; he is too craven. I would hope he would dedicate all his time to his family. I suppose their private affairs are none of our business. Newt, Foley, L. Craig, Livingston, Vitter, Spitzer, McGrevey, Packwood, Clinton – there is a long list of public people with personal failings. I am not put off by the act or the lying (What do they have to lose at that point?), and as a general rule, I don’t think adultery should be a disqualifier for office. What is repellent to me is the hypocrisy, the cravenness that they hold on to power after being caught, and the humiliation their spouses have to endure when used as props when they make public admissions. They are self-absorbed malignant narcissists. Bob Packwood ran for reelection. Bob Livingston did it right; he got caught and resigned in hours. I did notice McCain gave a firm no comment to an Edwards affair.
My own (now ex)husband did this many years ago. He had children with his mistress, and refused to acknowledge that truth until forced to do so. I cannot begin to describe the devastation this has wreaked on my children and myself, with consequences that persist to this day. The MSM continues to focus on the surface scandal, but has not explored the reality of what happens to families when the husband / father so egregiously betrays them.
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