If there was any time during the presidential primaries when I felt personally moved by a candidate’s story, it was when Elizabeth Edwards’ cancer returned. Her strength of will and support for her husband John was uplifting — a testament to love and commitment.
Whatever I think of John Edwards’ politics, I admire his wife, and their marriage, immensely.
Furthermore — since it was always pretty obvious that John Edwards’ candidacy wasn’t going anywhere (again) — rumors that he had had an affair struck me as both irrelevant and tasteless. I (and most folks) ignored the entire situation.
Not only that, but since the rag of record on the story also likes to blast out headlines like “Woman gives birth to Alien Baby with Three Heads”, it was easy to dismiss.
Now, the National Enquirer has come back around with their story, claiming that they were tipped off about a clandestine meeting Monday night… and so they lurked and stalked, and ultimately confronted Edwards (who then hid in a bathroom for 15 minutes to avoid them, the story says).
Since the National Enquirer has a circulation of over 1 million, it’s obvious that a certain segment of our society laps these kinds of stories up. Such behavior is laughed at and tolerated in… say… twisted former teen stars. But America has very little tolerance for cads, and prefers to keep known fools out of the White House (though they do sneak in now and again) — and if this tale is true, then John Edwards is both a fool and a despicable cad.
For the sake of his wife, I really hope this turns out to be just another Alien Baby story.
Fools, cads, and alien babies
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The Republicans are very afraid because both Obama and Edwards ARE LOYAL to their wives, and McCain was not at all loyal to his first wife after she had been crippled. So the Republicans are starting early and going after one of the Democrats strongest strength–their loyal marriages with magnificent wives–and try to neutralize that. Just as the Republicans went after Kerry’s and Cleland’s war records to minimize the lack of military participation on the part of Bush, Cheney, and Chambliss. Rove’s fingerprints are all over this.
And why do the Republicans make so much fuss about Edwards’ hair and house? Because they are an obvious strength of his–good health and being a self-made success. Again, go after the biggest strengths to neutralize them.
Remember the awful joke McCain told a few years back…about Janet Reno being Chelsea Clinton’s real daddy to explain her ducklinghood? Chelsea is totally a swan now, but McCain is still mush mouthed.
Well, you can pin the tail on the Attorney General again…Mike Mukasey is the real father of the baby. Why? Because I bet that baby looks just like John McCain but with more hair.
I think events have overtaken CyberCitizen’s testification to John Edwards’ fidelity.
For my part, I want the ratsocrats to nominate Edwards. I disagree with him passionately, but he advanced the platform most true to the ideals of the Democrat Party, and was, I thought, the best candidate running. I discounted the rumors of his affair, but I reckoned that true ratsocrat voters view infidelity as, at worst, a private matter between husband and wife, and at best, as a desirable trait in a candidate. How else can one explain fellatio boy’s lasting grip on the ratsocrat electorate?